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Table Of Contents
- View Installation
- Contents
- 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 Remote Desktops
- Creating OUs and Groups for Kiosk Mode Client Accounts
- Creating Groups for 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 Components Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- 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 Client Endpoints to Trust Root and Intermediate Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Revocation Checking on Server Certificates
- Configure the PCoIP Secure Gateway to Use a New SSL Certificate
- Setting View Administrator to Trust a vCenter Server or View Composer Certificate
- Benefits of Using SSL Certificates Signed by a CA
- Troubleshooting Certificate Issues on View Connection Server and Security Server
- Configuring View for the First Time
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
- View Administrator and View Connection Server
- Log In to View Administrator
- Install the Product License Key
- Add vCenter Server Instances to View
- 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 Remote Desktop Logon Storms
- Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate
- Configuring Horizon 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
- Change the Port Number for HTTP Redirection to Connection Server
- Prevent HTTP Redirection for Client Connections to Connection Server
- Enable Remote Access to View Performance Counters on Connection Servers
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Configuring Event Reporting
- Index
Configure View Composer Domains
You must configure an Active Directory domain in which View Composer deploys linked-clone desktops.
You can configure multiple domains for View Composer. After you first add vCenter Server and View
Composer settings to View, you can add more View Composer domains by editing the vCenter Server
instance in View Administrator.
Prerequisites
In View Administrator, verify that you completed the vCenter Server Information and View Composer
Settings pages in the Add vCenter Server wizard.
Procedure
1 On the View Composer Domains page, click Add to add the domain user for View Composer account
information.
2 Type the domain name of the Active Directory domain.
For example: domain.com
3 Type the domain user name, including the domain name.
For example: domain.com\admin
4 Type the account password.
5 Click OK.
6 To add domain user accounts with privileges in other Active Directory domains in which you deploy
linked-clone pools, repeat the preceding steps.
7 Click Next to display the Storage Settings page.
What to do next
Enable virtual machine disk space reclamation and configure View Storage Accelerator for View.
Allow vSphere to Reclaim Disk Space in Linked-Clone Virtual Machines
In vSphere 5.1 and later, you can enable the disk space reclamation feature for View. Starting in vSphere 5.1,
View creates linked-clone virtual machines in an efficient disk format that allows ESXi hosts to reclaim
unused disk space in the linked clones, reducing the total storage space required for linked clones.
As users interact with linked-clone desktops, the clones' OS disks grow and can eventually use almost as
much disk space as full-clone desktops. Disk space reclamation reduces the size of the OS disks without
requiring you to refresh or recompose the linked clones. Space can be reclaimed while the virtual machines
are powered on and users are interacting with their remote desktops.
Disk space reclamation is especially useful for deployments that cannot take advantage of storage-saving
strategies such as refresh on logoff. For example, knowledge workers who install user applications on
dedicated remote desktops might lose their personal applications if the remote desktops were refreshed or
recomposed. With disk space reclamation, View can maintain linked clones at close to the reduced size they
start out with when they are first provisioned.
This feature has two components: space-efficient disk format and space reclamation operations.
In a vSphere 5.1 or later environment, when a parent virtual machine is virtual hardware version 9 or later,
View creates linked clones with space-efficient OS disks, whether or not space reclamation operations are
enabled.
Chapter 7 Configuring View for the First Time
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