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Chapter 6 View Composer
UsesDHCPinordertoacquireitsIPaddress.
SystemdiskisbeattachedtotheSCSI(0:0)VirtualDeviceNode.Thispropertycan
beconfiguredfromwithinVirtualCenter.
Operatingsystempowersettingsaresettoremainonatalltimes.
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.
CAUTIONDonotattempttodeployclonesfromaParentVMthatcontainsmorethan
onevolumeastheresultofdiskpartitioning.Multiplepartitionsarenotsupportedby
theViewComposerservice.
NOTEForautomatedupdatingofViewAgentinlargeenvironments,VMware
recommendsusingstandardWindowsupdatemechanismssuchasAltiris,SMS,
LanDesk,BMC,orothersystemsmanagementsoftware.