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
Prerequisites
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Your Active Directory administrator must create a domain user with permission to add and remove virtual
machines from the Active Directory domain that contains your linked clones. To manage the linked-clone
machine accounts in Active Directory, the domain user must have Create Computer Objects, Delete
Computer Objects, and Write All Properties permissions.
See “Create a User Account for View Composer,” on page 25.
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You must configure View Manager to connect to vCenter Server. See “Add vCenter Server Instances to
View Manager,” on page 55.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, open the Edit vCenter Server dialog box.
a Click View Configuration > Servers.
b In the vCenter Servers panel, select the vCenter Server entry.
c Click Edit.
2 Select Enable View Composer and make sure that the port number is the same as the port that you
specified when you installed the View Composer service on vCenter Server.
View Manager verifies that the View Composer service is running on vCenter Server.
3 Click Add to add the domain user for View Composer account information.
a Type the domain name of the Active Directory domain.
For example: domain.com
b Type the domain user name, including the domain name.
For example: domain.com\admin
c Type the account password.
d Click OK.
e To add domain user accounts with privileges in other Active Directory domains in which you deploy
linked-clone pools, repeat the preceding steps.
4 Click OK to close the Edit vCenter Server dialog box.
What to do next
Repeat this procedure for each vCenter Server instance in which View Composer services are installed.
Configuring View Client Connections
View clients communicate with a View Connection Server or security server host over secure HTTPS
connections.
The initial View Client connection, which is used for user authentication and View desktop selection, is created
when a user provides an IP address to View Client. If firewall and load balancing software are configured
correctly in your network environment, this request reaches the View Connection Server or security server
host.
When users connect to a View desktop with the Microsoft RDP display protocol, View Client makes a second
HTTPS connection to the View Connection Server or security server host. This connection is called the tunnel
connection because it provides a secure tunnel for carrying RDP data.
Chapter 5 Installing View Connection Server
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