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
Local Mode Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
To manage desktops that are used in local mode, the vCenter Server user must have privileges in addition to
those required to support View Manager and View Composer. Create a Local Mode Administrator role for the
vCenter Server user that combines the View Manager privileges, View Composer privileges, and local mode
privileges.
Table 5-9. Local Mode Privileges
Privilege Group Privileges to Enable
Global Set custom attribute
Host In Configuration:
System management
Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
After you install View Connection Server, you must install a product license, add vCenter Servers and View
Composer services to View Manager, add security servers if you use them, and set external URLs for client
desktops that run outside your network.
View Administrator and View Connection Server
View Administrator provides a management interface for View Manager.
Depending on your View deployment, you use one or more View Administrator interfaces.
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Use one View Administrator interface to manage the View components that are associated with a single,
standalone View Connection Server instance or a group of replicated View Connection Server instances.
You can use the IP address of any replicated instance to log in to View Administrator.
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You must use a separate View Administrator interface to manage the View components for each single,
standalone View Connection Server instance and each group of replicated View Connection Server
instances.
You also use View Administrator to manage security servers and View Transfer Server instances associated
with View Connection Server.
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Each security server is associated with one View Connection Server instance.
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Each View Transfer Server instance can communicate with any View Connection Server instance in a
group of replicated instances.
Log In to View Administrator
To perform initial configuration tasks, you must log in to View Administrator.
Prerequisites
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Verify that View Connection Server is installed on a dedicated computer.
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Verify that you are using a Web browser supported by View Administrator. See “View Administrator
Requirements,” on page 9.
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