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
Procedure
1 Open your Web browser and enter the following URL, where server is the host name or IP address of the
View Connection Server instance.
https://
server
/admin
You access View Administrator by using a secure (SSL) connection. When you first connect, your Web
browser might display a page warning that the security certificate associated with the address is not issued
by a trusted certificate authority. This response is expected behavior because the default certificate
supplied with View Connection Server is self-signed.
2 Click Ignore to continue using the current SSL certificate.
3 Log in using administrator credentials on the View Connection Server computer.
Initially, all users who are members of the local Administrators group (BUILTIN\Administrators) on the
View Connection Server computer are allowed to log in to View Administrator.
After you log in to View Administrator, you can use View Configuration > Administrators to change the
list of View Manager administrators.
Install the View Connection Server License Key
Before you can use View Connection Server, you must enter the product license key.
The first time you log in, View Administrator displays the Product Licensing and Usage page.
After you install the license key, View Administrator displays the dashboard page when you log in.
You do not have to configure a license key when you install a replicated View Connection Server instance or
a security server. Replicated instances and security servers use the common license key stored in the View
LDAP configuration.
NOTE You must use a View 4.x license key for View Connection Server 4.x. A license key provided with
View 3.x or earlier does not work with the new license model introduced in View 4.x.
Procedure
1 If the View Configuration view is not displayed, click View Configuration in the left navigation pane.
2 Click Product Licensing and Usage.
3 On the Product Licensing table, click Edit License and enter the View Manager license serial number.
4 Click OK.
5 Verify the license expiration date.
Add vCenter Server Instances to View Manager
You must configure View Manager to connect to the vCenter Server instances in your View deployment.
vCenter Server creates and manages the virtual machines that View Manager uses as desktop sources.
Prerequisites
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Install the View Connection Server product license key.
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Prepare a vCenter Server user with permission to perform the operations in vCenter Server that are
necessary to support View Manager. To use View Composer, you must give the user additional privileges.
To manage desktops that are used in local mode, you must give the user privileges in addition to those
that are required for View Manager and View Composer. See “Configure a vCenter Server User for View
Manager, View Composer, and Local Mode,” on page 51.
Chapter 5 Installing View Connection Server
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