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
You can configure an initial security server pairing without using IPsec rules. Before you install the security
server, you can open View Administrator and deselect the global setting Use IPSec for Security Server
Connections, which is enabled by default. If IPsec rules are not in effect, you do not have to remove them
before you upgrade or reinstall.
NOTE You do not have to remove a security server from View Administrator before you upgrade or
reinstall the security server. Remove a security server from View Administrator only if you intend to
remove the security server permanently from the Horizon View environment.
With View 5.0.x and earlier releases, you could remove a security server either from within the View
Administrator user interface or by using the vdmadmin -S command-line command. In View 5.1 and later
releases, you must use vdmadmin -S. See "Removing the Entry for a View Connection Server Instance or
Security Server Using the -S Option" in the VMware Horizon View Administration document.
CAUTION If you remove the IPsec rules for an active security server, all communication with the security
server is lost until you upgrade or reinstall the security server.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, click View Configuration > Servers.
2 In the Security Servers tab, select a security server and click More Commands > Prepare for Upgrade
or Reinstallation.
If you disabled IPsec rules before you installed the security server, this setting is inactive. In this case,
you do not have to remove IPsec rules before you reinstall or upgrade.
3 Click OK.
The IPsec rules are removed and the Prepare for Upgrade or Reinstallation setting becomes inactive,
indicating that you can reinstall or upgrade the security server.
What to do next
Upgrade or reinstall security server.
Firewall Rules for View Connection Server
Certain ports must be opened on the firewall for View Connection Server instances and security servers.
When you install View Connection Server, the installation program can optionally configure the required
Windows firewall rules for you. These rules open the ports that are used by default. If you change the
default ports after installation, you must manually configure the Windows firewall to allow View Client
devices to connect to View through the updated ports.
Table 5‑4. Ports Opened During View Connection Server Installation
Protocol Ports View Connection Server Instance Type
JMS TCP 4001 in Standard and replica
JMSIR TCP 4100 in Standard and replica
AJP13 TCP 8009 in Standard and replica
HTTP TCP 80 in Standard, replica, and security server
HTTPS TCP 443 in Standard, replica, and security server
PCoIP TCP 4172 in;
UDP 4172 both
directions
Standard, replica, and security server
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