3.1
Table Of Contents
- View Manager 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
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Device Information
- Enabling HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing VirtualCenter for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- locked.properties
- Glossary
- Index
View Manager Administration Guide
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Inadditiontothestandardprivilegesdescribedin“VirtualCenterPermissionsforView
ManagerUsers”onpage 37,theViewComposerservicerequiresthatyouenablesome
additionalprivileges,describedinTable 6‐1.
Local System Administrator
ViewComposerrequiresthattheVirtualCenteruserisalsoasystemadministratoron
themachinehostingtheservice(theVirtualCenterserver).Toaddressthisrequirement,
anyVirtualCenteruserusedbyViewManagertodeploylinkedclonedesktopsmustbe
amemberofthelocalsystemAdministratorsgroupontheVirtualCenterserver.
Preparing a Parent VM
TheParentVMisusedbylinkedclonedesktopsasthebaseimageforeachlinked
desktopclone.ForaParentVMtobeusedbyViewManagerinalinkedclonedesktop
deployment,youmustfirstinstalltheViewAgentonitsoperatingsystem.
Makesurethatyouhaveadministrative
rightstotheParentVMandthatthefollowing
prerequisitesareinplace.EnsurethattheParentVM:
IsjoinedtotheActiveDirectorydomaininwhichyouwantlinkedclonedesktops
toreside.
Networkingsettings(proxies,andsoforth)areproperlyconfigured.
Table 6-1. Create View Composer Role: Required Privileges
Privilege Group Privilege(s) to Enable
Folder CreateFolder
Datastore BrowseDatastore
FileManagement
VirtualMachine Inventory
Configuration
State
Provisioning>Clone
Provisioning>AllowDiskAccess
Resource AssignVirtualMachineToResourcePool
Global EnableMethods
DisableMethods
NOTEAdministrativeusersinVirtualCenterhavealltherequisitepermissionsenabled
bydefault.