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
You must join the View Connection Server host to an Active Directory domain. View Connection Server
supports the following versions of Active Directory:
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Windows 2000 Active Directory
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Windows 2003 Active Directory
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Windows 2008 Active Directory
The View Connection Server host must not be a domain controller.
NOTE View Connection Server does not make, nor does it require, any schema or configuration updates to
Active Directory.
Do not install View Connection Server on systems that have the Windows Terminal Server role installed. You
must remove the Windows Terminal Server role from any system on which you install View Connection Server.
Do not install View Connection Server on a system that performs any other functions or roles. For example,
do not use the same system to host vCenter Server.
The system on which you install View Connection Server must have a static IP address.
To install View Connection Server, you must use a domain user account with administrator privileges on the
system.
Install View Connection Server with a New Configuration
To install View Connection Server as a single server or as the first instance in a group of replicated View
Connection Server instances, you use the standard installation option.
When you select the standard installation option, the installation creates a new, local View LDAP configuration.
The installation loads the schema definitions, Directory Information Tree (DIT) definition, and ACLs and
initializes the data.
After installation, you manage most View LDAP configuration data by using View Administrator. View
Connection Server automatically maintains some View LDAP entries.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you can log in as a domain user with administrator privileges on the Windows Server computer
on which you install View Connection Server.
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Verify that your installation satisfies the requirements described in “View Connection Server
Requirements,” on page 7.
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Prepare your environment for the installation. See “Installation Prerequisites for View Connection
Server,” on page 37.
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Familiarize yourself with the incoming TCP ports that must be opened on the Windows Firewall for View
Connection Server instances. See “Firewall Rules for View Connection Server,” on page 41.
Procedure
1 Download the View Connection Server installer file from the VMware product page at
http://www.vmware.com/products/ to the Windows Server computer.
The installer filename is VMware-viewconnectionserver-4.5.
x
-
xxxxxx
.exe or VMware-
viewconnectionserver-x86_64-4.5.
x
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xxxxxx
.exe, where xxxxxx is the build number.
2 To start the View Connection Server installation program, double-click the installer file.
3 Accept the VMware license terms.
4 Accept or change the destination folder.
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