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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
What to do next
In View Administrator, add View Transfer Server to your View Manager deployment.
Add View Transfer Server to View Manager
View Transfer Server works with View Connection Server to transfer files and data between local desktops
and the datacenter. Before View Transfer Server can perform these tasks, you must add it to your View
Manager deployment.
You can add multiple View Transfer Server instances to View Manager. The View Transfer Server instances
access one common Transfer Server repository. They share the transfer workload for the local desktops that
are managed by a View Connection Server instance or by a group of replicated View Connection Server
instances.
NOTE When View Transfer Server is added to View Manager, its Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
automation policy is set to Manual, which effectively disables DRS.
Prerequisites
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Verify that View Transfer Server is installed on a Windows Server virtual machine.
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Verify that vCenter Server is added to View Manager. The View Configuration > Servers page in View
Administrator displays vCenter Server instances that are added to View Manager.
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If View Transfer Server is version 5.1 or later, and you plan to use linked-clone desktops in local mode,
verify that all replicated View Connection Server instances in the View configuration are version 5.1 or
later. If an earlier version of View Connection Server sends a request to publish a base image to the
Transfer Server repository, View Transfer Server cannot perform the publish operation.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, click View Configuration > Servers.
2 Click the Transfer Servers tab and click Add.
3 In the Add Transfer Server wizard, select the vCenter Server instance that manages the View Transfer
Server virtual machine and click Next.
4 Select the virtual machine where View Transfer Server is installed and click Finish.
View Connection Server reconfigures the virtual machine with four SCSI controllers. The multiple SCSI
controllers allow View Transfer Server to perform an increased number of disk transfers concurrently.
In View Administrator, the View Transfer Server instance appears in the Transfer Servers panel. If no
Transfer Server repository is configured, the View Transfer Server status changes from Pending to No
Transfer Server Repository Configured. If a Transfer Server repository is configured, the status changes
from Pending to Initializing Transfer Server Repository to Ready.
This process can take several minutes. You can click the refresh button in View Administrator to check the
current status.
When the View Transfer Server instance is added to View Manager, the Apache service is started on the
View Transfer Server virtual machine.
CAUTION If your View Transfer Server virtual machine is an earlier version than hardware version 7, you
must configure the static IP address on the View Transfer Server virtual machine after you add View
Transfer Server to View Manager.
When multiple SCSI controllers are added to the View Transfer Server virtual machine, Windows removes
the static IP address and reconfigures the virtual machine to use DHCP. After the virtual machine restarts,
you must re-enter the static IP address in the virtual machine.
Chapter 6 Installing View Transfer Server
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