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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 6 View Composer
Systemdiskcontainsasinglevolume(multiplevirtualdisksaresupported).
TheViewAgentserviceisinstalledandisrunning.
Ifyouhavenotalreadydoneso,installthelatestoperatingsystemandapplication
servicepacksandpatchesontheParentVM.
DHCP Lease Removal
ItisrecommendedthatyoureleaseanyDHCPinformationthatmayexistontheParent
VMsothataleasedIPaddressisnotreplicatedamongstthelinkedclonesinthepool.
YoucanreleaseaDHCPleasebyopeningacommandpromptontheParentVMand
enteringthefollowing:
ipconfig /release
Installing the View Agent on the Parent VM
Ifitisnotalreadypresent,youmustinstalltheViewAgentontheParentVMinorder
toallowtheViewConnectionServertocommunicatewiththedesktopclonescreated
fromthebaseimage.
To install View Agent
1RuntheViewAgentinstallationprogram,wherexxxisthebuildnumberofthe
executablefile:
VMware-viewagent-xxx.exe
Theinstallationwizardopens.ClickNext.
2AccepttheVMwarelicensetermsandclickNext.
CAUTIONDonotattempttodeployclonesfromaParentVMthatcontainsmorethan
onevolumeastheresultofdiskpartitioning.Multiplepartitionsarenotsupportedby
theViewComposerservice.
NOTEForautomatedupdatingofViewAgentinlargeenvironments,VMware
recommendsusingstandardWindowsupdatemechanismssuchasAltiris,SMS,
LanDesk,BMC,orothersystemsmanagementsoftware.