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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
During installation, View configures the Windows firewall to open the ports that are used by View Transfer
Server by default. If you change the ports, you must manually reconfigure your Windows firewall to open
the updated ports so that View Client devices can connect to the View Transfer Server instance.
Procedure
1 Stop the VMware View Transfer Server service.
2 On the View Transfer Server computer, navigate to the install_directory\VMware\VMware
View\Server\httpd\conf directory.
The httpd.conf and mod_vprov.conf files are located in this directory.
3 Change the HTTP port.
a Open the httpd.conf file.
b Update the Listen value.
For example: Listen 4080
c Save the httpd.conf file.
4 Change the HTTPS port.
a Open the mod_vprov.conf file.
b Update the Listen value.
For example: Listen 4443
c Update the Virtual Host entry.
For example, update the entry as follows:
# Configure SSL
<VirtualHost_default_:4443>
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile ./conf/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile ./conf/server.key
<Location /vprov>
SetHandler vprov
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
d Save the mod_vprov.conf file.
5 Restart the VMware View Transfer Server service to make your changes take effect.
What to do next
If necessary, manually configure your Windows firewall to open the updated ports.
Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
To support a large deployment of View Manager desktops, you can configure the Windows Server
computers on which you install View Connection Server. On each computer, you can size the Windows
page-file.
On 64-bit Windows Server 2008 computers, the ephemeral ports, TCB hash table, and Java Virtual Machine
settings are sized by default. These adjustments ensure that the computers have adequate resources to run
correctly with the expected user load.
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