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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
about participating after the installation, you can either join or withdraw from the program by editing the
Product Licensing and Usage page in View Administrator. To review the list of fields from which data is
collected, including the fields that are made anonymous, see "Information Collected by the Customer
Experience Improvement Program" in the VMware Horizon View Administration document.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you can log in as a domain user with administrator privileges on the Windows Server
computer on which you install View Connection Server.
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Verify that your installation satisfies the requirements described in “View Connection Server
Requirements,” on page 7.
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Prepare your environment for the installation. See “Installation Prerequisites for View Connection
Server,” on page 40.
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If you intend to authorize a domain user or group as the View Administrators account, verify that you
created the domain account in Active Directory.
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If you use MIT Kerberos authentication to log in to a Windows Server 2008 R2 computer on which you
are installing View Connection Server, install the Microsoft hotfix that is described in KB 978116 at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978116.
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Prepare a data recovery password. When you back up View Connection Server, the View LDAP
configuration is exported as encrypted LDIF data. To restore the encrypted backup View configuration,
you must provide the data recovery password. The password must contain between 1 and 128
characters. Follow your organization's best practices for generating secure passwords.
IMPORTANT You will need the data recovery password to keep View operating and avoid downtime in
a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) scenario. You can provide a password reminder
with the password when you install View Connection Server.
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Familiarize yourself with the network ports that must be opened on the Windows Firewall for View
Connection Server instances. See “Firewall Rules for View Connection Server,” on page 57.
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If you plan to pair a security server with this View Connection Server instance, verify that Windows
Firewall with Advanced Security is set to on in the active profiles. It is recommended that you turn this
setting to on for all profiles. By default, IPsec rules govern connections between security server and
View Connection Server and require Windows Firewall with Advanced Security to be enabled.
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If your network topology includes a back-end firewall between a security server and the View
Connection Server instance, you must configure the firewall to support IPsec. See “Configuring a Back-
End Firewall to Support IPsec,” on page 58.
Procedure
1 Download the View Connection Server installer file from the VMware product page at
http://www.vmware.com/products/ to the Windows Server computer.
The installer filename is VMware-viewconnectionserver-x86_64-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe, where xxxxxx is the
build number and y.y.y is the version number.
2 To start the View Connection Server installation program, double-click the installer file.
3 Accept the VMware license terms.
4 Accept or change the destination folder.
5 Select the View Standard Server installation option.
6 Type a data recovery password and, optionally, a password reminder.
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