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
Configure the Transfer Server Repository
The Transfer Server repository stores View Composer base images for linked-clone desktops that run in local
mode. To give View Transfer Server access to the Transfer Server repository, you must configure it in View
Manager. If you do not use View Composer linked clones in local mode, you do not have to configure a Transfer
Server repository.
If View Transfer Server is configured in View Manager before you configure the Transfer Server repository,
View Transfer Server validates the location of the Transfer Server repository during the configuration.
If you plan to add multiple View Transfer Server instances to this View Manager deployment, configure the
Transfer Server repository on a network share. Other View Transfer Server instances cannot access a Transfer
Server repository that is configured on a local drive on one View Transfer Server instance.
Make sure that the Transfer Server repository is large enough to store your View Composer base images. A
base image can be several gigabytes in size.
If you configure a remote Transfer Server repository on a network share, you must provide a user ID with
credentials to access the network share. As a best practice, to enhance the security of access to the Transfer
Server repository, make sure that you restrict network access for the repository to View administrators.
Prerequisites
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Verify that View Transfer Server is installed on a Windows Server virtual machine.
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Verify that View Transfer Server is added to View Manager. See “Add View Transfer Server to View
Manager,” on page 69.
NOTE Adding View Transfer Server to View Manager before you configure the Transfer Server repository
is a best practice, not a requirement.
Procedure
1 Configure a path and folder for the Transfer Server repository.
The Transfer Server repository can be on a local drive or a network share.
Option Action
Local Transfer Server repository
On the virtual machine where View Transfer Server is installed, create a path
and folder for the Transfer Server repository.
For example: C:\TransferRepository\
Remote Transfer Server repository
Configure a UNC path for the network share.
For example: \\server.domain.com\TransferRepository\
All View Transfer Server instances that you add to this View Manager
deployment must have network access to the shared drive.
2 In View Administrator, click View Configuration > Servers.
3 Put all View Transfer Server instances into maintenance mode.
a In the Transfer Servers panel, select a View Transfer Server instance.
b Click Enter Maintenance Mode and click OK.
The View Transfer Server status changes to Maintenance mode.
c Repeat Step 3a and Step 3b for each instance.
When all View Transfer Server instances are in maintenance mode, current transfer operations are stopped.
4 In the Transfer Servers panel, next to Transfer Server repository, click None Configured.
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