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
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15 Inordertojoinlinkedclonedesktopstoadomain,ViewManagerrequiresdomain
administratorcredentialsforthetargetdomain.Selectthedomainnameanduser
nameentryfromtheQuickPrepdomaindrop‐downmenu.Youspecifythese
credentialswhenyouaddoredityourVirtualCenterserversettingsinthe
procedure
“ToaddoreditaVirtualCenterserverentryinViewManager”on
page 135.
Ifyouwantascripttorunonthedesktopsbeforetheyarepoweredoff,enterthe
pathtoascriptontheParentVMinthePower‐offscriptfield.
Ifyouwantascripttorun
ondesktopsaftertheyarecreated,recomposed,or
refreshed,enterthepathtoascriptontheParentVMinthePostSynchronization
scriptfield.
EntertheActiveDirectorycontainerrelativedistinguishedname(forexample,
CN=Computers).
ClickNext.
16 Youarepresentedwithasummaryoftheconfigurationsettingsforthis
deployment.
Ifyouareunsatisfiedwithanyaspectoftheconfigurationyoucanusethe
Backbuttontorevisitanypreviouspage.
IfyouaresatisfiedwiththeconfigurationclickFinishtodeploythelinked
clonedesktoppool.
Oncethedeploymenthasbeeninitiatedyoucanmonitortheprogressofthe
provisioneddesktoppoolortheindividualdesktopsbyselectingeithertheDesktops
orDesktopSourcestabsintheDesktopspane.
Oncethe
processiscompleteyoucanentitleusersorgroupstousethedesktoppoolby
carryingouttheproceduredescribedin“EntitlingaDesktoporPool”onpage 81.
Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked
Clone Desktops
Youcanonlyrecompose,refresh,orrebalancelinkedclonedesktopsthatarepartofa
persistentpool.IfyouwanttochangetheParentVMofanon‐persistentlinkedclone
desktoppoolyoumustmodifythepooldirectlybyusingthepooldeploymentwizard.
Thedeploymentwizardcanbeinvoked
byclickingEditonthesummarypageforthe
non‐persistentpool.
N
OTEThesettingsyouenterarenotvalidatedbyViewComposer.