5.2
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
Adding the View Desktops Plug-in to
the vSphere Web Client 9
The View Desktops plug-in lets you use the vSphere Web Client to find information about View
deployments that run in your vSphere environment. You add the View Desktops plug-in to the vSphere
Web Client by registering the plug-in with the vCenter Lookup Service.
In View 5.2, the View Desktops plug-in is a Tech Preview feature that lets you quickly navigate from users
of virtual desktops in View to the underlying virtual machines on which those virtual desktops are based.
Use the View Desktops plug-in to troubleshoot issues with a user's desktop. If a user calls in with a problem
such as a desktop that is performing slowly, you can immediately jump to the user's virtual machine on the
Virtual Machines page of the vSphere Web Client and troubleshoot the issue.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Add the View Desktops Plug-in,” on page 115
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“Search for View Users in the vSphere Web Client,” on page 119
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“Remove the View Desktops Plug-in,” on page 120
Add the View Desktops Plug-in
To add the View Desktops plug-in to the vSphere Web Client, you must configure the vCenter Lookup
Service and register the plug-in. To perform these tasks, you run the regtool.cmd utility installed with View
Connection Server.
Procedure
1 View Desktops Support for View Pods and vCenter Server Services on page 116
The View Desktops plug-in supports a single pod of replicated View Connection Server instances. You
cannot use the View Desktops plug-in to search for desktops that are managed by different pods of
replicated View Connection Server instances.
2 View Desktops Registration Prerequisites on page 116
Before you add the View Desktops plug-in to the vSphere Web Client, you must verify that your
vSphere and View environments are prepared for the registration. You also must identify user
accounts with the administrator privileges required to register the plug-in.
3 Configure View to Recognize the vCenter Lookup Service on page 117
You must configure View to recognize the vCenter Lookup Service. You perform this configuration
task once for all View Connection Server instances in a replicated group.
4 Register the View Desktops Plug-in on page 118
You must register the View Desktops plug-in with the vCenter Single-Sign On Service and vCenter
Lookup Service.
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