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What to do next
If you use View Composer desktop pools, recompose or recreate the pools. See “Upgrade View Composer
Desktop Pools,” on page 39.
Upgrade View Clients. See “Upgrade View Clients,” on page 40.
Upgrade View Composer Desktop Pools
Part of the final phase of a VMware View upgrade includes upgrading View Composer desktop pools.
Upgrading pools that were created with View Composer requires that you use a snapshot taken after
upgrading View Agent on the parent virtual machine. View Agent 3.1.x and 4.0.x are not compatible with
View Composer 2.5. This limitation means that you must not use a View 4.0.x or 3.1.x master image, or snapshot,
when creating, recomposing, or refreshing a pool that uses features specific to View 4.5 . These View 4.5 features
include using a system-disposable disk (SDD), using a Sysprep customization specification, and attaching a
previously archived user-data disk (UDD) to an existing desktop.
Prerequisites
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Complete the procedure described in “Upgrade View Connection Servers in a Replicated Group,” on
page 21.
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Complete the procedure described in “Upgrade to View Composer 2.5 and vCenter Server 4.1 on a
Different Machine,” on page 30 or “Upgrade View Composer Only,” on page 25.
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If you are also upgrading ESX hosts and virtual machines, complete the procedure described in “Upgrade
ESX Hosts and Virtual Machines,” on page 35.
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Complete the procedure described in “Upgrade View Agent,” on page 38 for upgrading the agent in the
parent virtual machine.
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Plan maintenance windows carefully so that recreating and recomposing desktop pools will not
overwhelm the storage array and ESX hosts.
Procedure
1 If you disabled provisioning of new virtual machines in preparation for the upgrade, enable provisioning
again.
2 Use the snapshot you created after upgrading the parent virtual machine to recreate or recompose desktop
pools.
Option Action
Nonpersistent pools
Delete View 3.1.x or 4.0.x virtual desktops from the pool and recreate the
desktop pool.
Persistent pools
Recompose the desktop pool.
3 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.
4 If you canceled any refresh or recompose operations for any desktop pools, schedule the tasks again.
What to do next
Upgrade View Clients. See “Upgrade View Clients,” on page 40 and “Upgrade Offline Desktop Clients to
View Client with Local Mode,” on page 41.
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