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Table Of Contents
- VMware Horizon View Installation
- Contents
- VMware Horizon View Installation
- System Requirements for Server Components
- System Requirements for Guest Operating Systems
- Preparing Active Directory
- Configuring Domains and Trust Relationships
- Creating an OU for View Desktops
- Creating OUs and Groups for Kiosk Mode Client Accounts
- Creating Groups for View Users
- Creating a User Account for vCenter Server
- Create a User Account for View Composer
- Configure the Restricted Groups Policy
- Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Prepare Active Directory for Smart Card Authentication
- Installing View Composer
- Installing View Connection Server
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installation Prerequisites for View Connection Server
- Install View Connection Server with a New Configuration
- Install a Replicated Instance of View Connection Server
- Configure a Security Server Pairing Password
- Install a Security Server
- Firewall Rules for View Connection Server
- Reinstall View Connection Server with a Backup Configuration
- Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
- Uninstalling View Products Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- Installing View Transfer Server
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Understanding SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Overview of Tasks for Setting Up SSL Certificates
- Obtaining a Signed SSL Certificate from a CA
- Configure View Connection Server, Security Server, or View Composer to Use a New SSL Certificate
- Configure View Clients to Trust Root and Intermediate Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Revocation Checking on Server Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Checking in View Client for Windows
- Configure the PCoIP Secure Gateway to Use a New SSL Certificate
- View Transfer Server and SSL Certificates
- Setting View Administrator to Trust a vCenter Server or View Composer Certificate
- Benefits of Using SSL Certificates Signed by a CA
- Configuring View for the First Time
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Where to Use the vCenter Server User and Domain User for View Composer
- Configure a vCenter Server User for View Manager, View Composer, and Local Mode
- View Manager Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- View Composer Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Local Mode Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
- View Administrator and View Connection Server
- Log In to View Administrator
- Install the View Connection Server License Key
- Add vCenter Server Instances to View Manager
- Configure View Composer Settings
- Configure View Composer Domains
- Allow vSphere to Reclaim Disk Space in Linked-Clone Virtual Machines
- Configure View Storage Accelerator for vCenter Server
- Concurrent Operations Limits for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Setting a Concurrent Power Operations Rate to Support View Desktop Logon Storms
- Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate
- Configuring View Client Connections
- Replacing Default Ports for View Services
- Replace the Default HTTP Ports or NICs for View Connection Server Instances and Security Servers
- Replace the Default Ports or NICs for the PCoIP Secure Gateway on View Connection Server Instances and on Security Servers
- Replace the Default Port for View Composer
- Replace the Default Ports for View Transfer Server
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Adding the View Desktops Plug-in to the vSphere Web Client
- Configuring Event Reporting
- Index
4 (Optional) If the computer on which the PCoIP Secure Gateway is running has multiple NICs, select
one NIC to listen on the configured ports.
Under the same registry key, add the following String (REG_SZ) values to specify the IP address that is
bound to the designated NIC.
For example:
ExternalBindIP "10.20.30.40"
InternalBindIP "172.16.17.18"
If you configure external and internal connections to use the same NIC, the external and internal UDP
ports must not be the same.
5 Restart the VMware View PCoIP Secure Gateway service to make your changes take effect.
Replace the Default Port for View Composer
The SSL certificate that is used by the View Composer service is bound to a certain port by default. You can
replace the default port by using the SviConfig ChangeCertificateBindingPort utility.
When you specify a new port with the SviConfig ChangeCertificateBindingPort utility, the utility unbinds
the View Composer certificate from the current port and binds it to the new port.
During installation, View Composer configures the Windows firewall to open the required default port. If
you change the port, you must manually reconfigure your Windows firewall to open the updated port and
ensure connectivity to the View Composer service.
Prerequisites
Verify that the port you specify is available.
Procedure
1 Stop the View Composer service.
2 Open a command prompt on the Windows Server host where View Composer is installed.
3 Type the SviConfig ChangeCertificateBindingPort command.
For example:
sviconfig -operation=ChangeCertificateBindingPort
-Port=port number
where -port=port number is the new port to which View Composer binds the certificate. The -
port=port number parameter is required.
4 Restart the View Composer service to make your changes take effect.
What to do next
If necessary, manually reconfigure the Windows firewall on the View Composer server to open the updated
port.
Replace the Default Ports for View Transfer Server
By default, the Apache Web server that is installed with View Transfer Server listens on port 80 or, if SSL is
used, port 443. You can change the default ports by editing Apache Web server configuration files.
The default HTTP port is 80. You change the HTTP port by editing the httpd.conf file on the View Transfer
Server computer.
The default HTTPS port is 443. You change the HTTPS port by editing the mod_vprov.conf file on the View
Transfer Server computer.
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