6.1
Table Of Contents
- View Upgrades
- Contents
- View Upgrades
- Component Compatibility Matrix
- View Upgrade Overview
- System Requirements for Upgrades
- Preparing for a View Upgrade
- Upgrading View Server Components
- Upgrade ESXi Hosts and Their Virtual Machines
- Upgrading Remote Desktops and Horizon Client
- Post-Upgrade Tasks to Enable New Features in Your View Setup
- Applying View Patches
- Upgrading vSphere Components Separately in a View Environment
- Index
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Plan maintenance windows carefully so that recreating and recomposing desktop pools will not
overwhelm the storage array and ESXi hosts.
Procedure
1 If you disabled provisioning of new virtual machines in preparation for the upgrade, enable
provisioning again.
2 To turn on the 3D rendering feature, edit the pool to configure the following settings:
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Set the pool to use the PCoIP display protocol.
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Set Allow users to choose protocol to No.
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Turn on the 3D Rendering feature.
3 To enable the space reclamation feature available with vSphere 5.1 virtual machines, in the Advanced
Storage section of pool settings, select Reclaim VM disk space, and set the threshold for space
reclamation to 1GB.
4 To enable View Storage Accelerator, available with vSphere 5.0 or later virtual machines, in the
Advanced Storage section of pool settings, verify that the Use View Storage Accelerator check box is
selected.
View Storage Accelerator can improve performance during boot storms and anti-virus scanning I/O
storms by allowing ESXi hosts to cache common virtual machine disk data.
IMPORTANT This feature is turned on by default. View Storage Accelerator requires 1GB of RAM per
ESXi host.
5 Use the snapshot you created after upgrading the parent virtual machine to recompose desktop pools.
6 If you changed the Refresh OS disk on logoff setting for a pool to Never in preparation for the
upgrade, change the setting back to reflect the appropriate refresh policy.
7 If you canceled any refresh or recompose operations for any desktop pools, schedule the tasks again.
What to do next
Upgrade the clients. See “Upgrade the Client Application,” on page 49.
Perform the tasks listed in Chapter 8, “Post-Upgrade Tasks to Enable New Features in Your View Setup,” on
page 51 that apply to your setup.
Upgrade the Client Application
The final phase of a View upgrade includes upgrading to the latest version of Horizon Client and upgrading
the firmware on thin client devices if you use them.
The Local Mode feature for Horizon Client has been removed. In its place, VMware recommends using
Mirage, which is included with VMware Horizon 6. For more information, see the View Release Notes,
available at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html.
IMPORTANT Upgrading involves running the new version of the Horizon Client installer without first
removing the older version of the client application. If your end users have the Windows-based View Client
4.6.0 or an earlier version, instruct them to remove the client software before downloading and running the
latest Horizon Client installer.
Prerequisites
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Complete the procedures for upgrading the server components, which can include View Connection
Server and View Composer. See Chapter 5, “Upgrading View Server Components,” on page 25.
Chapter 7 Upgrading Remote Desktops and Horizon Client
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