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
Calculate the number of ephemeral ports to configure on the Windows Server computer. See “Calculate the
Number of Ephemeral Ports,” on page 60.
Modify the Windows registry value only if the resulting number of ports is greater than 4,000 on Windows
Server 2003 or greater than 16,000 on Windows Server 2008.
Procedure
1 On the Windows Server computer, start the Windows Registry Editor.
a Select Start > Command Prompt.
b At the command prompt, type regedit.
2 In the registry, locate the correct subkey and click Parameters.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
3 Click Edit > New and add the registry entry.
Value Name: MaxUserPort
Value Type: DWORD
Value data: 1024 +
calculated number of ephemeral ports
Valid Range: 5000-65534 (decimal)
4 Exit the Windows Registry Editor.
5 Restart the Windows Server computer.
Increasing the Size of the TCB Hash Table
The transmission control block (TCB) holds information about TCP connections that are made between View
Connection Server clients and their desktop sources. To support a large View desktop deployment, you can
increase the size of the TCB hash table.
The TCB is a memory-resident data structure that contains socket numbers, the location of incoming and
outgoing data buffers, bytes received or unacknowledged, and other information.
To retrieve this information quickly, Windows Server stores TCB data structures in a hash table.
By default, Windows Server configures the number of hash table rows based on the number of CPUs in the
Windows Server computer.
You use two different formulas to calculate the TCB hash table size on View Connection Server instances and
security servers.
Calculate the Size of the TCB Hash Table for View Connection Server
To support a large number of View desktops, you can optimize the size of the TCB hash table on each View
Connection Server instance. Calculate the size in rows.
Procedure
u
Use the following formula.
Number of hash table rows on each View Connection Server instance = ( (5 x clients) / servers )
+ desktops + 20
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