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Chapter 1 Introduction
Mac Operating System Support
ViewPortalisanexperimentalfeatureonMacOS.Pleasereferto“System
Requirements”onpage 14formoreinformationaboutexperimentalfeatures.
USB Support
InordertousetheUSBredirectionfeaturewithViewPortal,usersmustfirstinstall
ViewClientontheirlocalsystem.Referto“ViewClientandViewPortal”onpage 70
formoreinformationaboutthis.
Virtual Printing
ViewPortaldoesnotsupportvirtualprinting.
View Composer
VMwareInfrastructure3.5U3isrequiredinordertousetheViewComposerfeature,
andissupportedonthefollowing32bitplatforms:
WindowsServer2003ServicePack1
WindowsXPProfessionalServicePack2
SQL
ASQLdatabaseresidenton—oravailableto—theVirtualCenterserverisalsorequired
inordertostorelinkedcloneinformation.
Therequirementsforeachtypeofdatabasesupportedbythisfeatureareshownin
Table 13.
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OTEWindows2000doesnotsupportUSBredirection.
NOTEYoucannotusetheViewComposerfeatureofViewManagertodeploydesktops
thatrunWindowsVistaUltimateEditionorWindowsXPProfessionalSP1.
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OTEIfoneisalreadypresentontheVirtualCenterserver,ViewComposercanuse
theexistingdatabase—forexample,theMicrosoftSQLServer2005Expressinstance
providedwithVirtualCenterbydefault.