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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
View Manager Administration Guide
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Figure 1-1. Example High-Level View of a View Manager Environment
View Manager Features
ThemajorfeaturesofViewManageraredescribedbelow:
Enterprise‐classconnectionbrokering—ViewManagermanagestheconnections
betweenusersandtheirvirtualdesktops.WhenusersconnecttoViewManager,
thevirtualdesktopstheyareauthorizedtoaccessaredisplayed.
“Smartpooling”capabilities—Arangeofpersistentandnon‐persistentpooling
capabilitiessimplifiestheprovisioningandmanagementofcentralizeddesktops.
network
ESX hosts running
Virtual Desktop VMs
View
Connection
Server
View
Administrator
(browser)
VMware VirtualCenter
Management Server
Microsoft
Active Directory
network
Windows
View Client
Mac
View Portal
Linux
View Portal Thin Client
virtual desktops
ESX host
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
virtual machine
desktop OS
app app app
View Agent