Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware View Installation Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- System Requirements for Server Components
- System Requirements for Client Components
- Supported Operating Systems for View Agent
- Supported Operating Systems for View Client and View Client with Local Mode
- Hardware Requirements for Local Mode Desktops
- Client Browser Requirements for View Portal
- Remote Display Protocol and Software Support
- Adobe Flash Requirements
- Smart Card Authentication Requirements
- 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
- Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
- Uninstalling View Products Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- 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
- Configuring View Client Connections
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installing View Transfer Server
- Configuring Certificate Authentication
- Replacing the Default Certificate
- Add keytool and openssl to the System Path
- Export an Existing Microsoft IIS SSL Server Certificate
- Creating a New SSL Certificate
- Configure a View Connection Server Instance or Security Server to Use a New Certificate
- Configure a View Transfer Server Instance to Use a New Certificate
- Configure SSL for Client Connections
- Configure SSL for View Transfer Server Communications
- Using Group Policy to Configure Certificate Checking in View Client
- Creating an Event Database
- Installing and Starting View Client
- Install the Windows-Based View Client or View Client with Local Mode
- Start the Windows-Based View Client or View Client with Local Mode
- Install View Client by Using View Portal
- Install View Client on Mac OS X
- Start View Client on Mac OS X
- Set Printing Preferences for the Virtual Printer Feature
- Using USB Printers
- Installing View Client Silently
- Index
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In vCenter Server, create a resource pool on the ESX host or cluster on which you want to store linked-
clone desktops.
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If Windows firewall is running on the vCenter Server computer, make sure that the port the View
Composer service uses to communicate with View Connection Server is accessible. You can add this port
to the exception list or deactivate the local firewall service. You specify this port when you install the View
Composer service.
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Verify that you have the DSN, domain administrator user name, and password that you provided in the
ODBC Data Source Administrator wizard. You enter this information when you install the View Composer
service.
Procedure
1 Download the VMware View Composer installer file from the VMware product page at
http://www.vmware.com/products/ to the Windows Server computer on which vCenter Server is
installed.
The installer filename is VMware-viewcomposer-
xxxxxx
.exe, where xxxxxx is the build number. This
installer file installs the View Composer service on 64-bit and 32-bit Windows Server operating systems.
2 To start the View Composer installation program, double-click the installer file.
On Windows Server 2008 computers, you might have to right-click the installer file and select Run As
Administrator.
3 Accept the VMware license terms.
4 Accept or change the destination folder.
5 Type the DSN for the View Composer database that you provided in the Microsoft or Oracle ODBC Data
Source Administrator wizard.
For example: VMware View Composer
NOTE If you did not configure a DSN for the View Composer database, click ODBC DSN Setup to
configure a name now.
6 Type the domain administrator user name and password that you provided in the ODBC Data Source
Administrator wizard.
7 Type a port number or accept the default value.
View Connection Server uses this port to communicate with the View Composer service.
8 Provide an SSL certificate.
Option Action
Create default SSL certificate
Click this radio button to create a default SSL certificate for the View
Composer service.
Use an existing SSL certificate
Click this radio button if you have an SSL certificate you want to use for the
View Composer service. Select an SSL certificate from the list.
9 Click Install and Finish to complete the View Composer service installation.
The VMware View Composer service starts on the vCenter Server computer.
Chapter 4 Installing View Composer
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