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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Chapter 6 View Composer
Restore View Composer Database (restoredata)
ViewConnectionServercanbesettocreatemanualorautomaticbackupsof
View LDAPandViewComposerdatabasedata.Usingtherestoredatacommand,
thebackupfilesthatrelatetoyourViewComposerdeploymentcanthenbeimported
intotheSQLdatabasethatstoreslinkedcloneinformationinordertorestoreyour
View
environmenttoanearlierstate.
Bydefault,thebackupfilesonViewConnectionServerarestoredinthefollowing
location:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\VMware\VDM\backups
ViewComposerbackupfilesusethefollowingnamingconvention:
Backup-<Year><Month><Day><Count>-<VirtualCenter Server Name>
_<Domain Name>.SVI
Forexample:
Backup-20090304000010-foobar_test_org.SVI
Use Case
UsethiscommandwhenyouwanttoreplicateorrestoreViewComposerdatabasedata
afterasystemfailure,orifyouwanttorevertyourViewComposerdeploymenttoan
earlierstate.
Usage
Beforeyoucanimportbackupdata,youmustfirstshutdowntheViewComposer
servicerunningontheVirtualCenterserver.Restarttheserviceonceyouhave
successfullyexecutedthecommand.
N
OTEReferto“ViewServers”onpage 55forinformationonhowtomanuallyor
automaticallycreatebackupfiles.