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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Verify that the Windows computer on which you install View Connection Server has version 2.0 or later
of the MSI runtime engine. For details, see the Microsoft Web site.
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Familiarize yourself with the MSI installer command-line options. See “Microsoft Windows Installer
Command-Line Options,” on page 48.
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Familiarize yourself with the silent installation properties available with a standard installation of View
Connection Server. See “Silent Installation Properties for a View Connection Server Standard
Installation,” on page 40.
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
-
xxxxxx
.exe, where xxxxxx is the build number.
2 Open a command prompt on the Windows Server computer.
3 Type the installation command on one line.
For example: VMware-viewconnectionserver-4.5.
x
-
xxxxxx
.exe /s /v"/qn VDM_SERVER_INSTANCE_TYPE=1"
The VMware View services are installed on the Windows Server computer. For details, see “Install View
Connection Server with a New Configuration,” on page 38.
Silent Installation Properties for a View Connection Server Standard Installation
You can include specific View Connection Server properties when you perform a silent installation from the
command line. You must use a
PROPERTY
=
value
format so that Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) can interpret
the properties and values.
Table 5-1. MSI Properties for Silently Installing View Connection Server in a Standard Installation
MSI Property Description Default Value
INSTALLDIR The path and folder in which the View Connection Server software
is installed.
For example: INSTALLDIR=""D:\abc\my folder""
The sets of two double quotes that enclose the path permit the MSI
installer to ignore the space in the path.
%ProgramFiles
%\VMware\VMware
View\Server
VDM_SERVER_
INSTANCE_TYPE
The type of View Connection Server installation:
n
1. Standard installation
n
2. Replica installation
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3. Security server installation
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4. View Transfer Server installation
For example, to perform a standard installation, define
VDM_SERVER_INSTANCE_TYPE=1
1
FWCHOICE The MSI property that determines whether to configure a firewall
for the View Connection Server instance.
A value of 1 sets a firewall. A value of 2 does not set a firewall.
For example: FWCHOICE=1
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