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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
You enable caching on your ESXi hosts by selecting the View Storage Accelerator setting in the vCenter
Server wizard in View Administrator, as described in this procedure.
Make sure that View Storage Accelerator is also configured for individual desktop pools. View Storage
Accelerator is enabled for desktop pools by default, but this feature can be disabled or enabled when you
create or edit a desktop pool. To operate on a desktop pool, View Storage Accelerator must be enabled for
vCenter Server and for the individual desktop pool.
You can enable View Storage Accelerator on desktop pools that contain linked clones and pools that contain
full virtual machines.
View Composer Array Integration is not supported in desktop pools that are enabled for View Storage
Accelerator. View Composer Array Integration uses vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) native NFS
snapshot technology to clone virtual machines.
View Storage Accelerator is now qualified to work in configurations that use View replica tiering, in which
replicas are stored on a separate datastore than linked clones. Although the performance benefits of using
View Storage Accelerator with View replica tiering are not materially significant, certain capacity-related
benefits might be realized by storing the replicas on a separate datastore. Hence, this combination is tested
and supported.
Prerequisites
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Verify that your vCenter Server and ESXi hosts are version 5.0 or later.
In an ESXi cluster, verify that all the hosts are version 5.0 or later.
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Verify that the vCenter Server user was assigned the Global > Act as vCenter Server privilege in
vCenter Server.
See “Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer,” on page 81.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, complete the Add vCenter Server wizard pages that precede the Storage
Settings page.
a Select View Configuration > Servers.
b On the vCenter Servers tab, click Add.
c Complete the vCenter Server Information, View Composer Settings, and View Composer Domains
pages.
2 On the Storage Settings page, make sure that the Enable View Storage Accelerator check box is
selected.
This check box is selected by default.
3 Specify a default host cache size.
The default cache size applies to all ESXi hosts that are managed by this vCenter Server instance.
The default value is 1,024MB. The cache size must be between 100MB and 2,048MB.
4 To specify a different cache size for an individual ESXi host, select an ESXi host and click Edit cache
size.
a In the Host cache dialog box, check Override default host cache size.
b Type a Host cache size value between 100MB and 2,048MB and click OK.
5 On the Storage Settings page, click Next.
6 Click Finish to add vCenter Server, View Composer, and Storage Settings to View.
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