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 Download the VMware View Connection Server installer file from the VMware product page at
http://www.vmware.com/products/ to the Windows Server computer.
The installer filename is VMware-viewconnectionserver-4.5.
x
-xxxxxx.exe or VMware-
viewconnectionserver-x86_64-4.5.
x
-
xxxxxx
.exe, where xxxxxx is the build number.
2 Open a command prompt on the Windows Server computer.
3 Type the installation command on one line.
For example: VMware-viewconnectionserver-4.5.
x
-
xxxxxx
.exe /s /v"/qn VDM_SERVER_INSTANCE_TYPE=4"
The VMware View Transfer Server, View Transfer Server Control Service, and VMware View Framework
Component services are installed and started on the virtual machine.
What to do next
In View Administrator, add View Transfer Server to your View Manager deployment.
Silent Installation Properties for View Transfer Server
You can include specific properties when you silently install a View Transfer Server from the command line.
You must use a
PROPERTY
=
value
format so that Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) can interpret the properties
and values.
Table 6-2. MSI Properties for Silently Installing View Transfer Server
MSI Property Description Default Value
INSTALLDIR The path and folder in which the View Connection Server software is
installed.
For example: INSTALLDIR=""D:\abc\my folder""
The sets of two double quotes that enclose the path permit the MSI installer
to ignore the space in the path.
This MSI property is optional.
%ProgramFiles
%\VMware\VMware
View\Server
VDM_SERVER_INSTANCE_
TYPE
The type of View Connection Server installation:
n
1. Standard installation
n
2. Replica installation
n
3. Security server installation
n
4. View Transfer Server installation
To install a View Transfer Server, define
VDM_SERVER_INSTANCE_TYPE=4
This MSI property is optional for a standard installation. It is required for
all other types of installation.
1
SERVERDOMAIN The network domain of the virtual machine on which you install View
Transfer Server. This value corresponds to the Apache Web Server
network domain that is configured during an interactive installation.
For example: SERVERDOMAIN=companydomain.com
If you specify a custom Apache Web Server domain with the MSI
property, SERVERDOMAIN, you also must specify custom SERVERNAME and
SERVERADMIN properties.
This MSI property is optional.
None
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