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
Add View Transfer Server to View Manager
View Transfer Server works with View Connection Server to transfer files and data between local desktops
and the datacenter. Before View Transfer Server can perform these tasks, you must add it to your View Manager
deployment.
You can add multiple View Transfer Server instances to View Manager. The View Transfer Server instances
access one common Transfer Server repository. They share the transfer workload for the local desktops that
are managed by a View Connection Server instance or by a group of replicated View Connection Server
instances.
NOTE When View Transfer Server is added to View Manager, its Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
automation policy is set to Manual, which effectively disables DRS.
Prerequisites
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Verify that View Transfer Server is installed on a Windows Server virtual machine.
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Verify that vCenter Server is added to View Manager. The View Configuration > Servers page in View
Administrator displays vCenter Server instances that are added to View Manager.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, click View Configuration > Servers.
2 In the Transfer Servers panel, click Add.
3 In the Add Transfer Server wizard, select the vCenter Server instance that manages the View Transfer
Server virtual machine and click Next.
4 Select the virtual machine where View Transfer Server is installed and click Finish.
View Connection Server shuts down the virtual machine, reconfigures it with four SCSI controllers, and
restarts the virtual machine. The multiple SCSI controllers allow View Transfer Server to perform an
increased number of disk transfers concurrently.
In View Administrator, the View Transfer Server instance appears in the Transfer Servers panel. If no Transfer
Server repository is configured, the View Transfer Server status changes from Pending to Missing Transfer
Server repository. If a Transfer Server repository is configured, the status changes from Pending to Initializing
Transfer Server repository to Ready.
This process can take several minutes. You can click the refresh button in View Administrator to check the
current status.
When the View Transfer Server instance is added to View Manager, the Apache2.2 service is started on the
View Transfer Server virtual machine.
CAUTION If your View Transfer Server virtual machine is an earlier version than hardware version 7, you must
configure the static IP address on the View Transfer Server virtual machine after you add View Transfer Server
to View Manager.
When multiple SCSI controllers are added to the View Transfer Server virtual machine, Windows removes the
static IP address and reconfigures the virtual machine to use DHCP. After the virtual machine restarts, you
must re-enter the static IP address in the virtual machine.
Chapter 6 Installing View Transfer Server
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