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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
Configure the Transfer Server Repository
The Transfer Server repository stores View Composer base images for linked-clone desktops that run in
local mode. To give View Transfer Server access to the Transfer Server repository, you must configure it in
View Manager. If you do not use View Composer linked clones in local mode, you do not have to configure
a Transfer Server repository.
If View Transfer Server is configured in View Manager before you configure the Transfer Server repository,
View Transfer Server validates the location of the Transfer Server repository during the configuration.
If you plan to add multiple View Transfer Server instances to this View Manager deployment, configure the
Transfer Server repository on a network share. Other View Transfer Server instances cannot access a
Transfer Server repository that is configured on a local drive on one View Transfer Server instance.
Make sure that the Transfer Server repository is large enough to store your View Composer-generated base
images. A base image can be several gigabytes in size.
If you configure a remote Transfer Server repository on a network share, you must provide a user ID with
credentials to access the network share. As a best practice, to enhance the security of access to the Transfer
Server repository, make sure that you restrict network access for the repository to View administrators.
Prerequisites
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Verify that View Transfer Server is installed on a Windows Server virtual machine.
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Verify that View Transfer Server is added to View Manager. See “Add View Transfer Server to View
Manager,” on page 65.
NOTE Adding View Transfer Server to View Manager before you configure the Transfer Server
repository is a best practice, not a requirement.
Procedure
1 Configure a path and folder for the Transfer Server repository.
The Transfer Server repository can be on a local drive or a network share.
Option Action
Local Transfer Server repository
On the virtual machine where View Transfer Server is installed, create a
path and folder for the Transfer Server repository.
For example: C:\TransferRepository\
Remote Transfer Server repository
Configure a UNC path for the network share.
For example: \\server.domain.com\TransferRepository\
All View Transfer Server instances that you add to this View Manager
deployment must have network access to the shared drive.
2 In View Administrator, click View Configuration > Servers.
3 Put all View Transfer Server instances into maintenance mode.
a In the Transfer Servers panel, select a View Transfer Server instance.
b Click Enter Maintenance Mode and click OK.
The View Transfer Server status changes to Maintenance mode.
c Repeat Step 3a and Step 3b for each instance.
When all View Transfer Server instances are in maintenance mode, current transfer operations are
stopped.
4 In the General panel on the Transfer Server repository page, click Edit.
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