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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
Add vCenter Server Instances to View Manager
You must configure View Manager to connect to the vCenter Server instances in your View deployment.
vCenter Server creates and manages the virtual machines that View Manager uses as desktop sources.
If you run vCenter Server instances in a Linked Mode group, you must add each vCenter Server instance to
View Manager separately.
View Manager connects to the vCenter Server instance using a secure channel (SSL).
Prerequisites
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Install the View Connection Server product license key.
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Prepare a vCenter Server user with permission to perform the operations in vCenter Server that are
necessary to support View Manager. To use View Composer, you must give the user additional
privileges. To manage desktops that are used in local mode, you must give the user privileges in
addition to those that are required for View Manager and View Composer.
See “Configure a vCenter Server User for View Manager, View Composer, and Local Mode,” on
page 90.
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Verify that an SSL server certificate is installed on the vCenter Server host. In a production
environment, install a valid SSL certificate that is signed by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA).
In a testing environment, you can use the default certificate that is installed with vCenter Server, but
you must accept the certificate thumbprint when you add vCenter Server to View.
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Verify that all View Connection Server instances in the replicated group trust the root CA certificate for
the server certificate that is installed on the vCenter Server host. Check if the root CA certificate is in the
Trusted Root Certification Authorities > Certificates folder in the Windows local computer certificate
stores on the View Connection Server hosts. If it is not, import the root CA certificate into the Windows
local computer certificate stores.
See "Import a Root Certificate and Intermediate Certificates into a Windows Certificate Store" in the
VMware Horizon View Installation document.
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Verify that the vCenter Server instance contains ESXi hosts. If no hosts are configured in the vCenter
Server instance, you cannot add the instance to View.
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Familiarize yourself with the settings that determine the maximum operations limits for vCenter Server
and View Composer. See “Concurrent Operations Limits for vCenter Server and View Composer,” on
page 100 and “Setting a Concurrent Power Operations Rate to Support View Desktop Logon Storms,”
on page 101.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, click View Configuration > Servers.
2 In the vCenter Servers tab, click Add.
3 In the vCenter Server Settings server address text box, type the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of
the vCenter Server instance.
The FQDN includes the host name and domain name. For example, in the FQDN
myserverhost.companydomain.com, myserverhost is the host name and companydomain.com is the domain.
NOTE If you enter a server by using a DNS name or URL, View Manager does not perform a DNS
lookup to verify whether an administrator previously added this server to View Manager by using its
IP address. A conflict arises if you add a vCenter Server with both its DNS name and its IP address.
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