5.1
Table Of Contents
- VMware View Upgrades
- Contents
- VMware View Upgrades
- VMware View Component Compatibility Matrix
- VMware View Upgrade Overview
- System Requirements for Upgrades
- View Connection Server Requirements
- View Composer Requirements
- View Transfer Server Requirements
- View Administrator Requirements
- 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
- Supported Operating Systems for View Agent
- Preparing for a VMware View Upgrade
- Upgrading VMware View Server Components
- Upgrade ESX/ESXi 4.0.x, 4.1.x, or 5.0.x Hosts and Their Virtual Machines
- Upgrading VMware View Desktops and Clients
- Applying VMware View Patches
- Upgrading vSphere Components Separately in a VMware View Environment
- Index
What to do next
If your end users have View Client with Local Mode, upgrade these clients. See “Upgrade View Local Mode
Clients,” on page 51.
Upgrade View Local Mode Clients
Upgrading View Client with Local Mode is very similar to upgrading View Client for Windows. You run the
new installer on the client system.
IMPORTANT This procedure provides instructions for upgrading from View 4.6.x or 5.0.x Client with Local
Mode. If your end users have View Client with Local Mode 4.0.x or 4.5.x, instruct them to check in their View
desktops and then ask them to remove the View Client for Local Mode software from their client systems.
After their View desktops are upgraded to View 5.1 in the datacenter, they can perform a fresh installation of
View Client for Local Mode 5.1 and check out their upgraded View desktops.
Prerequisites
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Verify that View Connection Server, View Composer, and View Transfer Server have all been upgraded
to version 5.1. See Chapter 5, “Upgrading VMware View Server Components,” on page 25. If only one or
two of these components are upgraded to version 5.1, you will not be able to check out View desktops if
the desktops are based on linked clones.
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Verify that you have either a local user account with administrative privileges or a domain user account
with administrative privileges on client systems that you will use to run the installer and perform the
upgrade.
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Verify that client computers have a supported operating system and can accommodate the View desktop
that end users plan to download and run locally. See “Supported Operating Systems for Windows-Based
View Client and View Client with Local Mode,” on page 17 and “Hardware Requirements for Local Mode
Desktops,” on page 17.
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Determine a strategy for upgrading the View Agent software installed in the local desktop operating
system. One strategy is to instruct end users to check in their local desktops so that you can upgrade View
Agent on the virtual machine in the datacenter. Another strategy is to upgrade View Agent inside the local
View desktop on the client system. You can use whatever third-party tools you usually use for software
upgrades.
Procedure
1 If applicable, have end users check in their local desktops.
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If you plan to upgrade View Agent on the virtual machine in the datacenter, have end users check in
their local mode desktops.
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If the end user occasionally switches back and forth between system locales that use unicode and non-
unicode characters, have the user check in the View desktop before upgrading View Client.
2 On the client system, run the View 5.1 Client with Local Mode installer.
If end users have the required administrative privileges on their computers, you have several options for
providing end users with the installer:
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Download the installer from the VMware Web site and send it to your end users. Go to the following
URL: https://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients.
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Post the installer on a company Web site and ask end users to download it.
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