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Table Of Contents
- VMware View Installation
- Contents
- VMware View Installation
- System Requirements for Server Components
- System Requirements for Client Components
- Supported Operating Systems for View Agent
- Supported Operating Systems for View Client and View Client with Local Mode
- Hardware Requirements for Local Mode Desktops
- Client Browser Requirements for View Portal
- Remote Display Protocol and Software Support
- Adobe Flash Requirements
- Smart Card Authentication Requirements
- Preparing Active Directory
- Configuring Domains and Trust Relationships
- Creating an OU for View Desktops
- Creating OUs and Groups for Kiosk Mode Client Accounts
- Creating Groups for View Users
- Creating a User Account for vCenter Server
- Create a User Account for View Composer
- Configure the Restricted Groups Policy
- Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Prepare Active Directory for Smart Card Authentication
- Installing View Composer
- Installing View Connection Server
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installation Prerequisites for View Connection Server
- Install View Connection Server with a New Configuration
- Install a Replicated Instance of View Connection Server
- Configure a Security Server Pairing Password
- Install a Security Server
- Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
- Uninstalling View Products Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Where to Use the vCenter Server User and Domain User for View Composer
- Configure a vCenter Server User for View Manager, View Composer, and Local Mode
- View Manager Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- View Composer Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Local Mode Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
- Configuring View Client Connections
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installing View Transfer Server
- Configuring Certificate Authentication
- Replacing the Default Certificate
- Add keytool and openssl to the System Path
- Use an Existing PKCS#12 Certificate and Private Key
- Convert a PKCS#12 Keystore to JKS Format
- Creating a New SSL Certificate
- Configure a View Connection Server Instance or Security Server to Use a New Certificate
- Configure a View Transfer Server Instance to Use a New Certificate
- Configure SSL for Client Connections
- Configure SSL for View Transfer Server Communications
- Using Group Policy to Configure Certificate Checking in View Client
- Creating an Event Database
- Installing and Starting View Client
- Install the Windows-Based View Client or View Client with Local Mode
- Start the Windows-Based View Client or View Client with Local Mode
- Install View Client by Using View Portal
- Install View Client on Mac OS X
- Start View Client on Mac OS X
- Set Printing Preferences for the Virtual Printer Feature on Windows Clients
- Using USB Printers
- Installing View Client Silently
- Index
View Composer supports a subset of the database servers that vCenter Server supports. If you are already
using vCenter Server with a database server that is not supported by View Composer, continue to use that
database server for vCenter Server and install a separate database server to use for View Composer and View
Manager database events.
IMPORTANT If you create the View Composer database on the same SQL Server instance as vCenter Server, do
not overwrite the vCenter Server database.
Table 1-5 lists the supported database servers and versions. For a complete list of database versions supported
with vCenter Server, see the VMware vSphere Compatibility Matrixes on the VMware vSphere documentation
Web site.
Table 1-5. Supported Database Servers for View Composer
Database vCenter Server 4.1 and later
vCenter Server 4.0 U2 and
later VC Server 2.5 U6
Microsoft SQL
Server 2000 SP4
Standard
No No Yes
Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 Express
Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 SP3
Standard and
Enterprise
Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft SQL
Server 2008 SP1
Standard and
Enterprise
Yes Yes No
Microsoft SQL
Server 2008 SP1
Standard and
Enterprise 64-bit
Yes Yes No
Oracle 9i Release 2 No No Yes
Oracle 10g Release 2 Yes Yes No
Oracle 11g Release 1 Yes Yes No
Virtualization Software Requirements for View Composer Features
You must create linked-clone virtual machines on hosts that run ESX/ESXi 4 or later, and you must configure
linked-clone pools in vSphere mode, to take advantage of several View Composer and vSphere features.
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Storing linked-clone virtual machines on local datastores
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Redirecting disposable data to separate, non-persistent disks
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Storing replicas and linked clones on separate datastores
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Creating pools from a parent virtual-machine snapshot that uses hardware version 7
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Using Sysprep customization specifications for linked-clone virtual machines.
In addition, Sysprep is supported for linked clones only on vSphere 4.1 software. You cannot use Sysprep
on vSphere 4.0 or VMware Infrastructure 3.5 software.
Chapter 1 System Requirements for Server Components
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