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
root certificates
adding to the Enterprise NTAuth store 27
adding to trusted roots 26, 80
S
secure tunnel, external URL 106
security servers
configuring a pairing password 50
configuring an external URL 106
installer file 51
installing silently 53
modifying an external URL 108
opening port for HTML Access 105
operating system requirements 8
prepare to upgrade or reinstall 56
remove IPsec rules 56
silent installation properties 55
silent installation
group policies to allow installation 67
replicated instances 47
security servers 53
View Connection Server 43
View Transfer Server 67, 68
sizing Windows Server settings, increasing the
JVM heap size 113
smart card authentication
Active Directory preparation 25
UPNs for smart card users 25
software requirements, server components 7
sparse disks, configuring for vCenter Server 98
SQL Server database
adding an ODBC data source 31
adding for View Composer 30
preparing for event database 122
SQL Server databases 10
SQL Server Management Studio Express,
installing 30
SSL, accept a certificate thumbprint 102
storage, reclaiming disk space 98
support, online and telephone 5
sviconfig utility
configuring certificates 79
ReplaceCertificate option 79
Syslog servers, configuring View events to be
sent to 124
system page file size, Windows Server 113
T
TCP ports
View Connection Server 57
View Transfer Server 67
technical support and education 5
thumbprint, accept for a default certificate 102
Transfer Server repository, configuring 66
trust relationships, configuring for View
Connection Server 21
Trusted Root Certification Authorities policy 26,
80
U
uninstalling View components 61
UPNs, smart card users 25
user accounts
requirements 89
vCenter Server 22, 89, 90
View Composer 23, 89
userPrincipalName attribute 25
V
vCenter Lookup Service
configuring for View Desktops 117
registering the View Desktops plug-in 118
support for View Desktops plug-in 116
vCenter Server
configuring concurrent operations limits 100
configuring for View Composer 37
configuring host caching 99
configuring sparse disks 98
creating a user for local mode 90
installing the View Composer service 35
user accounts 22, 89
vCenter Server instances, adding in View
Administrator 95
vCenter Server user
local mode privileges 92
vCenter Server privileges 91
View Composer privileges 92
vCenter Single Sign-On Service, View Desktops
plug-in support 116
View Administrator
logging in 93
overview 93
requirements 9
View Agent, installation requirements 15
View Client for iPad, trusting the root
certificate 81
View Client for Mac OS X, trusting the root
certificate 81
View clients, configuring connections 103
View components, command-line options for
silent installation 60
View Composer, hardware requirements for
standalone View Composer 10
View Composer configuration
concurrent operations limits 100
creating a user account 23
creating a vCenter Server user 22, 89, 90
domains 97
privileges for the vCenter Server user 92
settings in View Administrator 96
SSL certificates 35
Index
VMware, Inc. 129