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
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If you plan to install View Client with Local Mode, verify that none of the following products is installed:
VMware View Client, VMware Player, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE, VMware Server.
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Determine whether the person who uses the client device is allowed to access locally connected USB
devices from a virtual desktop. If not, you must deselect the USB Redirection component that the wizard
presents.
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If you plan to install the USB Redirection component, verify that the Windows Automatic Update feature
is not turned off on the client computer.
Procedure
1 Log in to the client system as a user with administrator privileges.
2 Open a browser and enter the URL of the View Connection Server instance that provides access to the
virtual desktop.
Internet Explorer can determine whether an upgrade is available, whereas Firefox and Safari cannot. Also,
in the list of installers, Internet Explorer lists 32-bit installers if the client has a 32-bit system and lists 64-
bit installers if the client has a 64-bit system, whereas Firefox lists both 32-bit and 64-bit installers.
3 Follow the prompts on the Web page.
If the version available from View Connection Server is newer than that installed on the client device, you
can choose to upgrade. If the version is the same as that on the client device, View Portal starts the View
Client installed on the client computer.
If you have an older version of View Client and a smart card is required for client connections, an Internet
Explorer browser prompts you to insert your smart card before View Portal checks the version of your
existing View Client.
4 If Internet Explorer prompts you to insert a smart card, either insert the card or click Cancel.
Inserting a smart card and Cancel have the same effect.
What to do next
Connect to the View desktop. See “Start the Windows-Based View Client or View Client with Local Mode,”
on page 90 or “Start View Client on Mac OS X,” on page 94.
Install View Client on Mac OS X
End users open View Client to connect to virtual desktops from a Mac OS X physical machine. You install View
Client on Mac OS X client systems from a disk image file.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the client system uses a supported operating system. See “Supported Operating Systems for
View Client and View Client with Local Mode,” on page 16.
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Verify that the Mac client system has Remote Desktop Connection version 2.0 or higher installed. The
View Client disk image file includes a link to the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac
download page.
Procedure
1 Log in to the client system.
2 On the client system, download the View Client disk image file from the VMware product page at
http://www.vmware.com/products/.
Select the VMware-View-Client-4.5.
x
-
xxxxxx
.dmg disk image file, where xxxxxx is the build number.
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