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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 4 Virtual Desktop Deployment
UnmanagedDesktopSources—thedesktopsourceisamachinethatisnotmanaged
byaVirtualCenterserver.ThisincludesvirtualmachinesrunningonVMwareServer
andvirtualmachinesrunningonothervirtualizationplatformsthatsupportView
Agent.BladePCs,physicalPCs,andTerminalServersonwhichyoucaninstall
View Agent
areunmanageddesktopsources.
Desktop Delivery Models
UnifiedAccesssupportsdifferentdesktopdeliverymodelswhichcharacterizetheway
adesktopiscreated,entitled,delivered,andused.Thedesktopdeliverymodels
supportedbyViewManagerare:
IndividualDesktop–isadesktopthatallowsasingle,pre‐existingback‐endsource
withthefollowingcharacteristics:
Entitledtomanyusersorusergroups;however,onlyoneactiveuseratatime.
Notprovisionedautomatically.
ManualPool–isapoolofdesktopsourceswiththefollowingcharacteristics:
Multipleuserstomultipledesktopmapping;however,onlyoneactiveuserona
desktopatatime.
Notprovisionedautomatically.
Supportsbothpersistentandnon‐persistentaccessmodes.
Administratorentitlesentirepooltousersorusergroups.
AutomatedPool–isapoolthatcontainsoneormoredynamicallygenerateddesktops
thatareautomaticallycreatedandcustomizedbyViewManagerfromaVirtualCenter
virtualmachinetemplateandhavethefollowingcharacteristics:
Multipleuserstomultipledesktopmapping;however,onlyoneactiveuserona
desktopatatime.ThisisapplicableonlyonVImachines.
Provisionedautomatically.
Administratorspecifiesatemplateandacustomizationspecificationwhichisused
toprovisiondesktopsources.
Supportsbothpersistentandnon‐persistentaccessmodes.
Administratorentitlesentirepooltousersorusergroups.