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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 1 Introduction
Flexibledeploymentoptions—ViewManagercomponentscanbedeployedina
varietyofconfigurationsandtodifferentpartsofthenetwork,whichimproves
security,scalability,andreliability.Inaddition,multipleVirtualCenterserversare
supported,andViewManagercanscalehorizontallytosupportmanyvirtual
desktops.
Highavailability—Serverscanbeclusteredforhighavailabilityandscalability
withautomaticfailover.Theseserverscanalsoleverageindustry‐standard
load‐balancingsolutions.
IntegrationwithMicrosoftActiveDirectory—ConnectiontoActiveDirectory
allowsyoutolocateuserandusergroupaccountsanduseauthenticationfeatures
inordertocontrolwhichuserscanaccessvirtualdesktops.
SeamlessintegrationwithVMwareVirtualInfrastructure(VI)—Workswith
VMwareVirtualCentertoprovideadvancedvirtualdesktopmanagement
capabilities,suchasautomaticsuspendandresume,whichreducesthememory
andprocessingpowerrequiredtohostvirtualdesktops.
ByleveragingthecapabilitiesofVMwareVirtualInfrastructure,desktopscanrun
evenwhenserverhardwarefailsandre
coverquicklyfromunplannedoutages
withoutduplicatehardware.
Secureaccess—Optionalsecureencapsulationcapabilitiesallowallnetwork
connectionstobeencrypted.
Supportfortwo‐factorauthentication—WithRSASecurID,accesscontrolis
strengthened.
USBclientdeviceandvirtualprintingsupport—USBdevicesandprinterscanbe
locallyconnectedtoclientsyetaccessedfromavirtualdesktop.
Web‐basedmanagementuserinterface—AWeb‐basedadministrativeconsole
allowsvirtualdesktopstobemanagedfromanylocation.
Supportfornon‐VIsystems—physicalmachinesorterminalservicessystemscan
bealsomanagedbyViewManager,ensuringaseamlessintegrationofexisting
architecturesintotheVDIenvironment.
Scalablevirtualinfrastructure—linkedclonetechnologyallowsmultipledesktops
tobedeployedfromasinglebaseimage.Subsequentchangestothisimagecanbe
automaticallyproliferatedamongstalldesktopsinlinkedclonepool.
ViewManager3.0.1isafullyinternationalizedproduct.