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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
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Verify that you have a user with vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) administrator privileges.
You must provide this account when you register the View Desktops plug-in.
a Log in to the vSphere Web Client with a user account that has vCenter SSO administrator
privileges.
For example, on a vCenter Server that runs on Windows Server, the default vCenter SSO
administrator user is Admin@System-Domain. On a vCenter Server Virtual Appliance, the default user
is root@localos.
b Browse to Administration > Access > SSO Users and Groups.
The Users tab on the vCenter Single Sign-On Users and Groups page displays the users with
vCenter SSO administrator privileges. You can use any displayed user.
n
Verify that you have a user with the View Administrators role or Global Configuration and Policy
Administrators role. You can also use a user with the View Administrators role on an individual folder.
You must provide this account when you configure the vCenter Lookup Service and register the View
Desktops plug-in.
You authorize a View Administrators account when you install View Connection Server. See “Install
View Connection Server with a New Configuration,” on page 40.
In the View Administrator user interface, you can authorize additional users with the View
Administrators role or Global Configuration and Policy Administrators role. In addition, you can
authorize a user to have the View Administrators role on an individual folder. See "Manage
Administrators" in the VMware Horizon View Administration document.
What to do next
Configure the vCenter Lookup Service.
Configure View to Recognize the vCenter Lookup Service
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.
Prerequisites
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Verify that your vCenter Server and View environments are prepared for the registration. See “View
Desktops Registration Prerequisites,” on page 116.
Procedure
1 On the View Connection Server computer, navigate to the regtool.cmd utility, located in the following
directory:
install_directory\VMware\VMware View\Server\TechPreview\ViewAdminPlugin
2 (Optional) Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the jre folder.
For example: set JAVA_HOME=c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\jre
3 Configure the vCenter Lookup Service.
For example:
regtool.cmd configureLookupService -u view-admin@domain -ld https://lookup-server:
7444/lookupservice/sdk
view-admin@domain is the username and domain of a user with the View Administrators role.
lookup-server@domain is the host name or IP address and domain of the computer on which the
vCenter Lookup Service is installed.
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