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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 Windows-Based 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 SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Connection Server and Security Server
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Transfer Server
- Prepare an Existing Certificate in PKCS#12 Format for Use with View Transfer Server
- Obtain a Signed Certificate from a CA for Use with a View Transfer Server Instance
- Generate a Self-Signed Certificate for View Transfer Server
- Configure a View Transfer Server Instance to Use a Certificate
- Configure SSL for View Transfer Server Communications
- Configuring Certificate Checking in View Client for Windows
- Appendix: Additional SSL Configuration Tasks
- Creating an Event Database
- Installing and Starting View Client
- Index
To use the View Persona Management feature, you must install View Agent on Windows 7, Windows Vista,
or Windows XP virtual machines. View Persona Management does not operate on physical computers or
Microsoft Terminal Servers.
IMPORTANT If you use Windows 7 in a virtual machine, the host must be ESX/ESXi 4.0 Update 3 or later,
ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 1 or later, or ESXi 5.0 or later.
Supported Operating Systems for Windows-Based View Client and View
Client with Local Mode
Users run View Client to connect to their View desktops. You must install View Client or View Client with
Local Mode on a supported operating system.
Table 2-2 lists the Microsoft Windows operating systems supported for View Client. For information about
operating systems supported by other View Clients, such as View Client for the Mac and View Client for iPad,
see the documents that pertain to the specific client. Go to
https://www.vmware.com/support/viewclients/doc/viewclients_pubs.html.
Table 2-2. View Client Operating System Support for Windows-Based Clients
Operating System Version Edition Service Pack
Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit Home, Enterprise,
Professional, and Ultimate
None and SP1
Windows XP 32-bit Home and Professional SP3
Windows Vista 32-bit Home, Business, Enterprise,
and Ultimate
SP 1 and SP2
IMPORTANT View Client with Local Mode is supported only on Windows systems and only on physical
computers. In addition, to use this feature, your VMware license must include View Client with Local Mode.
View Client with Local Mode is the fully supported feature that in earlier releases was an experimental feature
called View Client with Offline Desktop.
NOTE VMware partners offer thin client devices for VMware View deployments. The features and Linux
operating systems that are available for each thin client device are determined by the vendor and model and
the configuration that an enterprise chooses to use. For information about the vendors and models for thin
client devices, see the Thin Client Compatibility Guide, available on the VMware Web site.
Hardware Requirements for Local Mode Desktops
When you check out a View desktop to run on your local computer, the hardware on the client computer must
support both the local system and the virtual machine that now runs on it.
Virtual Hardware
Checking out a View desktop that uses virtual hardware version 8 is not supported. If you use vSphere 5 to
create virtual machines that will be sources for local mode desktops, be sure to create virtual machines that
use virtual hardware version 7.
PC Hardware
Table 2-3 describes the hardware requirements for various View desktop operating systems.
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