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Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 What Is VMware Horizon View? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Simplify .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Manage and Secure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Empower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Architecture and Components of a Horizon View Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 VMware Horizon View Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Horizon View Connection Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Horizon View Composer Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Horizon View Security Server .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 VMware ThinApp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ThinApp Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Horizon View Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Horizon View Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Horizon View Persona Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Persona Management Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Infrastructure Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Active Directory Domain Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 vCenter Credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 SSL Certicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 SQL Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 File and Print Server .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Graphics Card (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Horizon View Components Virtual Machine Hardware Conguration Minimum Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Create Virtual Machines for Horizon View Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Horizon View Lab Exercises .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Exercise 1: Download the VMware Horizon View Installer Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Exercise 2: Complete the Prerequisite Worksheets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Installing Horizon View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Exercise 1: Installing View Connection Server .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Exercise 2: Installing View Security Server.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Exercise 3: Installing Horizon View HTML Access Web Portal on View Connection Server .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Exercise 4: Installing View Composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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Conguring Horizon View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Exercise 1: Logging into VMware Horizon View Administrator Console and Licensing the Product. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Exercise 2: Connecting vCenter Server Appliance and Conguring View Composer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Exercise 3: Conguring ThinApp Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Exercise 4: Conguring Persona Administrative Templates in Active Directory .. . . 74 Exercise 5: Adjusting PCoIP Settings for PCoIP Tuning .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Exercise 6: Setting up SYSLOG Collection for View Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Preparing Desktop Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Exercise 1: Create Parent Virtual Machine for Desktop Deployment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Exercise 2: Install View Agent and Enable Persona Management on Desktop Image Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Exercise 3: Install Horizon View Remote Experience Agent to Enable HTML Access and Unity Touch on the Desktop Image Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Exercise 4: Optimizing the Parent Virtual Machine for Desktop Deployment .. . . . . 86 Exercise 5: Install Custom Applications and Congure the Parent Virtual Machine Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Exercise 6: Preparing the Parent Virtual Machine for Linked-Clone Deployment .. 87 Deploying Horizon View Desktops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Exercise 1: Create Linked Clone Desktop Pool .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Exercise 2: Entitling Users to Desktop Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Exercise 3: Assigning ThinApps to a Desktop or a Desktop Pool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Connecting to Horizon View Desktops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Exercise 1: Connecting to a Horizon View Desktop Using the View Client. . . . . . . 111 Exercise 2: Connecting to a Horizon View Desktop Using HTML Access . . . . . . . . 114 Exercise 3: Connecting to a Horizon View Desktop from a Mobile View Client .. 119 About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
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The VMware Horizon Suite 1.0 is designed for todays mobile workforce. Users want to access business assets from anywhere, anytime, and from any device. IT needs to keep assets secure. With the Horizon Suite, IT has control, and users have choice. The Horizon Suite includes VMware Horizon Workspace, VMware Horizon View, and VMware Horizon Mirage. Horizon Workspace provides secure, single sign-on to applications, data, and virtual desktops from any mobile device or computer. Horizon View provides users with remote access to secure virtual desktops stored in the datacenter. End users can access their Horizon View desktops through Horizon Workspace. Horizon Mirage centrally manages desktop images of physical computers at the same time as it provides end users with local execution power and user personalization of the desktop. Users on Mirage-managed desktops can access their business assets through Horizon Workspace.
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Introduction
Welcome to the VMware Horizon View 5.2 Reviewers Guide. The purpose of this document is to support a selfguided, hands-on review of VMware Horizon View 5.2. Youll learn how easy it is to congure and use a VMware Horizon View 5.2 environment so you can evaluate both new and core capabilities. This document assumes you have basic knowledge of VMware vSphere ESXi and VMware vCenter and are comfortable conguring networking and storage in a virtual environment. Our step-by-step instructions will guide you through installation and how to work through the core and deployment scenarios. This is not intended as a substitute for product documentation. You can nd more detailed information regarding installation, conguration, administration, and use of VMware Horizon View in the online VMware documentation. You may also consult the online VMware Knowledge Base if you have additional questions. For in-depth technical white papers, refer to the VMware Horizon View Technical Resources page on the VMware Web site.
Simplify
Decouple applications, data, and desktops from their silos to deliver a highly responsive, scalable, and available environment. This provides IT resource elasticity to quickly meet the needs of businesses responding to changing markets and competition.
Empower
Provide optimal user experience and maximize productivity by delivering rich, personalized desktops to multiple devices.
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ThinApp Deployment Figure 3 shows the two possible deployment modes for ThinApp (local or streaming), and the location of the ThinApp repository within the Horizon View architecture.
You can permanently copy a ThinApp virtual application to the Horizon View desktop, or a shortcut on the Horizon View desktop can point to the virtual application on the ThinApp repository. Horizon View Agent Horizon View Agent must be installed on all virtual machines managed by vCenter Server so View Connection Server can communicate with them. Install View Agent in the guest operating system. View Agent assists with session management, single sign-on, and device redirection. Horizon View Client Install Horizon View Client on all endpoint devices. Users run View Client to: Connect to the View Connection Server or a Security Server Log in to their Horizon View desktops in the datacenter Edit the list of servers they connect to Install View Client on each device. Each device must have a supported operating system. View administrators have a few options where end users can download View Clients. One option is View Portal. View Portal is a Web access page installed with View Connection Server, which is the default landing page for View Connection Server. End users navigate to their View Connection Server URL from a browser, and View Portal appears. Users can then download and install View Client from View Portal. By default, links on View Portal connect users to the View Client Download Center on the VMware Web site. View Portal is also customizable so you can control which View Clients are downloadable, and store the client installers on a local storage device. The alternative option is for end users to download clients from the View Client Download Center on the VMware Web site.
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Horizon View Persona Management Horizon View Persona Management provides for persistent, dynamic user proles across user sessions on different desktops. User profile data is downloaded as needed to speed up login and logout time. New user settings are sent up to the user prole repository automatically during desktop use. For detailed deployment recommendations, see the VMware View Persona Management Deployment Guide. Persona Management is an optional component included with Horizon View.
Persona Management Deployment Figure 4 shows the Persona repository in a Horizon View deployment, and the location of the user prole (persona) on the Horizon View desktop. View Persona Management is enabled as an option during View Agent Installation on the virtual desktop.
Infrastructure Requirements
To take advantage of all the new features of View 5.2, we recommend that you pre-install and congure vSphere 5.1 Update 1 and vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 on your host.
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vCenter Credentials
For a desktop deployment View Connection Server requires you to connect to the vCenter host. The following information is required: vCenter Hostname FQDN vCenter Port Number vCenter Administrator Username vCenter Administrator Password
SSL Certicate
Horizon View components include a self-signed certicate by default. The self-signed certicate can be used for testing purposes. For a production environment, we recommend that you replace the self-signed certicate with an approved certicated signed by a Certicate Authority (CA).
SQL Database
View Composer requires a SQL database to store data with connections and components of linked-clone desktops. Supported databases are: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express R2 SP1 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise R2 (32- and 64-bit) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter SP2 (32- and 64-bit) Oracle 10g Release 2 [10.2.0.4] Standard, Standard ONE, and Enterprise (32- and 64-bit) Oracle 11g Release 2 [11.2.0.1] with Patch 5 - Standard, Standard ONE, and Enterprise (32- and 64-bit) You need the following information to proceed: IP Address for SQL Server FQDM for SQL Server Database Instance Name Name of a newly created database specifically for View Composer data Name of a newly created database specifically for View Events data Login credentials with DBO (Database Owner) rights on the database
Network Requirements
We recommend that you have at least 1Gbps network connectivity between all the required components and desktops.
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View Composer
Table 2 shows the operating system requirements for a VMware Horizon View deployment.
O P ERATI NG SYSTEM V ER SION EDITION MI N I MU M DI SKSPACE
64-bit
Standard Enterprise
40GB
64-bit
Standard Enterprise
40GB
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View Connection Server View Security Server View Composer Server vCenter Server Appliance
Table 3: Component Worksheet
View Composer DB
Table 4: SQL Database Worksheet
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4. Run the following command to verify that the VIB was installed: esxcli software vib list Note the name of the VIB module as you will verify that this driver loads in a later step.
5. Reboot your ESXi host. You can initiate this from the vSphere client or from the command line by typing reboot. Warning: Do not reboot until you have followed proper vSphere shutdown procedures. 6. When your host has powered back on, SSH back onto the ESXi console. Run the following command to ensure that the driver modules will load: Esxcli system module load module nameofmodule If this returns a successful result, then you are nished installing the ESXi VIB driver. Warning: Do not reboot until you have followed proper vSphere shutdown procedures. After rebooting ESXi remember to connect to your host with the vSphere client and initiate proper virtual machine power-on procedures to return your environment to the previous state.
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3. Read through the license agreement, accept the terms and conditions, and click Next.
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4. Figure 9 shows the default installation directory for View Connection Server. If you would like to modify it, click Change. When you have identied an installation directory or are ready to accept the default installation location, click Next.
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5. The View Connection Server installer includes multiple components. Select View Standard Server and click Next.
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6. Create a password to protect data backups of the View Connection Server. Specify a password and re-enter the password in the text boxes. Optionally select a password reminder and click Next.
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7. The View Connection Server installer can automatically congure Windows Firewall with the necessary ports required for the VCM to function correctly, or you can congure the ports manually. If you decide to congure the ports manually, be sure to complete the port conguration required prior to continuing with the next steps of the installation. When you have selected an option (Recommended: Congure Windows Firewall automatically) click Next.
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8. Decide which Administrators group or specic Administrator user you want to authorize to manage View Connection Server. Select the user(s) to authorize and click Next.
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9. You can optionally decide to participate anonymously in the User Experience Improvement Program. If you decide to participate, answer the questions listed from the drop-down menus and click Next.
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10. You have completed the conguration screens and are ready to install. If necessary, go back to make adjustments to earlier screens. When ready click Install.
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12. The Installer Completed screen appears when the installation is nished. You can decide to automatically open the readme le or not. Click Finish to close out the View Connection Server installer.
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3. Read through the license agreement, accept the terms and conditions, and click Next.
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4. Figure 21 shows the default installation directory for View Connection Server. If you would like to modify it, click Change. When you have identied an installation directory or are ready to accept the default installation location, click Next.
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5. The View Connection Server installer includes multiple components. Select View Security Server and click Next.
6. VMware View pairs View Security Server with a View Connection Server. Enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the View Connection Server and click Next.
Figure 23: Enter the Fully Qualied Domain Name of the View Connection Server
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7. To initiate the pairing process of the View Security Server to the View Connection Server, a pairing password must be set from the Horizon View Administrator console. Navigate to the URL of the Horizon View Administrator console found at: https://<fqdm-ofview-connection-server>/admin. Replace the text fqdm-of-view-connection-server with the fully qualied domain name of the View Connection Server or the IP address of the View Connection Server. Click Next.
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8. Navigate to the Horizon View Administrator console where you will be prompted for authorized Administrator user credentials. In the preceding View Connection Server installation, you had authorized an Administrator user. Fill in the User name and Password elds with the credentials for the Administrator you authorized, and click Login.
9. In the Horizon View Administrator console navigate to View Conguration in the left-hand menu and click the drop-down tab Servers.
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10. In the Servers tab navigate to the Connection Servers menu tab at the top. You will see the View Connection Server that you installed in Exercise 1. Click your View Connection Server so it is highlighted then click the drop-down button More Commands and select Specify Security Server Pairing Password.
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11. The dialog box Specify Security Server Pairing Password will pop up. To specify a Pairing Password and a Password Timeout Period value, decide on a password and ll in the Pairing password eld. Re-enter this password in the Conrm password eld. Then decide on a Password Timeout Period. This is a security measure to ensure only authorized pairings. When nished click OK. Now that the Pairing Password has been set you can log out of the Horizon View Administrator console. An overview of the Horizon View Administrator console menus and conguration will be covered in later sections.
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12. Return to the virtual machine where you are installing the View Security Server. Fill in the Password eld with your Security Pairing Password and click Next. This initiates the pairing process, which can take a few minutes to complete.
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13. Adjust the External URLs for the View Security Server. These URLs are used by the View Clients to establish a connection to the View Security Server. The default values are loaded shown below. Note that the PCoIP External URL must contain an IP address and not a FQDN. When you have modified the URLs or are satised with the default values click Next.
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14. The View Security Server installer can automatically congure Windows Firewall with the necessary ports required for the VCM to function correctly, or you can congure the ports manually. If you decide to congure the ports manually, be sure to complete the port conguration required prior to continuing with the next steps of the installation. When you have selected an option (Recommended: Congure Windows Firewall automatically) click Next.
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17. The Installer Completed screen appears when the installation is nished. You can decide to automatically open the readme le or not. Click Finish to close out the View Connection Server installer.
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Exercise 3: Installing Horizon View HTML Access Web Portal on View Connection Server
This feature is new in View 5.2. This feature is part of a Horizon View Feature Pack. 1. Launch the VMware Horizon View HTML Access installer. This must be loaded on the View Connection Server virtual machine.
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2. Read through the license agreement, accept the terms and conditions, and click Next.
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3. Figure 37 shows the default installation directory for Horizon View HTML Access Web Portal. If you would like to modify it, click Change. When you have identied an installation directory or are ready to accept the default installation location, click Next.
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4. You have completed the conguration screens and are ready to install. If necessary, go back to make adjustments to earlier screens. When ready, click Install.
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6. The Installer Completed screen appears when the installation is nished. Click Finish to close the Horizon View HTML Web Portal Access installer.
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7. To nalize the installation, you will want to check that TCP Port 8443 is open on the Windows Firewall. Conrm the port is open by loading the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security module on the operating system of the View Connection Server virtual machine and checking the Inbound Rules. If the port is not listed, then you will want to add the inbound rule. Once you have conrmed the port is open, your installation is complete. You will also want to make sure that this port is not blocked on your network rewall.
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2. Read through the license agreement, accept the terms and conditions, and click Next.
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3. Figure 44 shows the default installation directory for View Composer Server. If you would like to modify it, click Change. When you have identied an installation directory or are ready to accept the default installation location, click Next.
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4. Click ODBC DSN Setup to set up a new Data Source Name (DSN) that will define the connection between View Composer Server and the database setup for View Composer on SQL Server.
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6. Select the driver appropriate for your SQL Server. In this example we select SQL Server New Client 10.0. When you have selected a driver click Finish.
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7. Fill in the information for your data source. The Name eld refers to the data source. The Description eld is optional. Server refers to the address of your SQL Server in the format of FQDN\ SQLInstanceName or IP\SQLInstanceName. Fill in the required values and click Next.
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8. Enter the SQL Server Login ID and Password. These credentials must have DBO privileges. Be sure to check the box Connect to SQL Server to obtain default settings for the additional conguration options. Click Next.
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9. Check the box Change the default database to. From the drop-down select the database you created for View Composer data. Select the correct database and click Next.
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10. Additional database options are available but not required for the View Composer database. After you have selected additional options click Finish.
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11. The Setup Wizard displays a summary of DSN options. Click Test Data Source to ensure that your connection to the SQL Server is functional.
12. A dialog box shows the ODBC Data Source Test status. Click OK to continue.
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13. If your previous connection test completed successfully click OK to add the System DSN to your ODBC Data Source Administrator List. If your connection test was unsuccessful click Cancel, go back and make changes to the parameters in the previous screens.
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14. The Setup Wizard will add System DSN and list it under System Data Sources. Highlight the newly added System DSN name and click OK.
15. After the System DSN has been successfully created, the Setup Wizard brings you back to the View Composer installer. Fill in the System DSN Name, Username, and Password fields and click Next.
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16. You must specify a SOAP Port for View Composer communication. Accept the default value or enter a preferred port. When you have entered a valid port click Next.
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17. You have completed the conguration screens and are ready to install. If necessary, go back to make adjustments to earlier screens. When ready click Install.
18. Monitor your installation status as it progresses. Click Finish to close the View Composer Server installer.
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19. View Composer requires a system restart to nalize the installation. Click Yes to reboot the virtual machine.
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2. Click the left hand menu tab Product Licensing and Usage. When the menu has loaded click Edit Options in the Licensing section.
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3. Enter a valid license serial number in the popup box. When nished click OK. You have now licensed VMware Horizon View.
Exercise 2: Connecting vCenter Server Appliance and Conguring View Composer Settings
1. When you log into the Horizon View Administrator console the main landing page is the Dashboard. This provides an overview of your Horizon View environment. Click the left hand menu item Servers under the View Conguration tab.
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2. On the Servers page look for the active tab vCenter Servers and click Add. This begins the process of connecting a vCenter Server to your View environment.
3. Fill in the elds for your vCenter Server Settings. The required elds are Server address, User name and Password. The Server address must be the fully qualied domain name or IP address of your vCenter Server. The other elds are set to default values as shown in Figure 66. You can modify these values or accept the defaults. Click Next to continue.
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4. A popup box appears with a warning about your vCenter Server SSL Certicate. Click View Certicate if youd like to see your certicate. In an evaluation environment you can use default self-signed certicates. We recommend that you replace the self-signed certicate with an approved certicate signed by a Certicate Authority (CA) for a production environment.
5. A dialog box shows the certicate information for you to verify. It is a self-signed certicate generated by the default installation of vCenter Server appliance. Click Accept to approve the certicate.
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6. Congure the parameters for your View Composer Server. Click the Standalone View Composer Server option and ll in the required parameters Server address, User name and Password. The Server address is the fully qualied domain name or the IP of your View Composer Server virtual machine. You can modify the default Port value only if you modied it during the View Composer Server installation. Otherwise the default value matches the default value used during the installation. Click Next to continue.
7. A popup box appears with a warning about your View Composer SSL Certicate. Click View Certicate. In an evaluation environment you can use default self-signed certicates. We recommend that you replace the self-signed certicate with an approved certicated signed by a Certicate Authority (CA) for a production environment.
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8. A dialog box shows the certicate information for you to verify. It is a self-signed certicate generated by the default installation of View Composer Server. Click Accept to approve the certicate.
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10. Fill in the values for the elds Full domain name, User name, and Password. The User name and Password are the credentials for your domain. This account must have permissions to Create Computer Objects, Delete Computer Objects and Write Properties in the domain. Click OK to continue.
11. Congure the Storage options for your vCenter Server. Under Storage Settings click the check box Reclaim VM disk space, then click Enable View Storage Accelerator to enable both these features. You can accept the default value for Default host cache size or adjust it to a valid value. Click Next to continue.
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The Reclaim VM (virtual machine) disk space option is new in View 5.2. This option refers to sparse disk, the space-efficient (SE) virtual disk format introduced in vSphere 5.1. The major feature of SE sparse disk is its ability to reclaim previously used space within the guest OS. Linked clones utilizing the space-efficient sparse disk format are able to reclaim disk space and therefore only occupy as much storage as is currently being used. The Space Reclaim feature reclaims blocks that were previously used but are now unused on the guest OS. There are two steps involved in the Space Reclaim feature, as seen in Figure 75. The rst step is the wipe operation that frees a contiguous area of space in the virtual machine disk (VMDK). The second step is the shrink, which unmaps or truncates that area of free space to enable the physical storage to be returned to the free pool.
Space-efficient sparse virtual disks address some of the limitations of virtual machine disks. The new features result in reduced storage capacity requirements (lower CAPEX) for persistent desktops. They allow for the deployment of persistent desktops that are simplied through the use of View Composer with linked clones. SE Sparse disks have a new congurable block allocation size which can be tuned to the recommendations of the storage array vendor, or to applications running inside the Guest OS. This results in improved performance of View Composer linked clones. The space-efficient sparse virtual disks format is displayed as disk type Flex-SE in properties of a virtual machine. Desktops deployed as View Composer linked clones will automatically take advantage of the SE-sparse virtual disk format. Virtual Machine Hardware Version 9 and vSphere 5.1 are required to take advantage of this virtual disk format.
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For more detailed information regarding the SE-sparse virtual disk format, refer to the Whats New in VMware vSphere 5.1 Storage white paper. 12. A summary of information to add vCenter Server is shown in Figure 76. Click Finish to accept these values and add the vCenter Server to your View environment. Otherwise click Back to modify any of the previous screens.
13. You have successfully added the vCenter Server to your View environment. You can highlight the vCenter Server and click Edit at any time to make changes to your vCenter connection information or settings.
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2. Fill in the elds Display name, Share path, and Description. The Share Path must be in the format of \\fqdn\fileshare. The leshare is the name of the leshare you set up on your File and Print Server where your ThinApp packages are located. When you have entered valid values, click Save to add the repository.
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4. Now we will scan for available ThinApp packages. From the left hand menu, click ThinApp. When the ThinApp section loads, click Scan New ThinApps.
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6. After choosing a valid ThinApp repository, a listing of available folders will appear. Select the folder where your ThinApps are located and click Next to continue.
7. A list of the available potential ThinApp packages will appear. Highlight the les you wish to scan and click Scan to continue.
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8. When the scan is complete, a summary with all the available ThinApps will appear. Click Finish to nalize adding the ThinApp packages to your inventory.
9. A listing of your ThinApp package inventory will be shown. You have successfully added ThinApp packages that are now available to assign to specic desktops or a desktop pool.
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This new feature in View 5.2 allows you to send View Events to a syslog server. 1. Log in to the View Administrator console. Navigate to the Events Conguration menu under View Conguration. Click Add under Syslog on the right side of the page.
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2. A popup box appears with the elds Server address and UDP Port for your target Syslog Server. Fill in your information and click OK. You have now successfully added a Syslog Server to log Horizon View events.
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2. Install the guest operating system: Windows 7 32-bit. 3. After the installation is complete and you are logged into the virtual machine as a local administrator you are ready to continue.
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Exercise 2: Install View Agent and Enable Persona Management on Desktop Image Virtual Machine
1. Launch the VMware Horizon View Agent installer. This installer must be accessible from your virtual machine. Launch the installer with Run As Administrator option.
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3. Read through the license agreement, accept the terms and conditions, and click Next.
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4. Figure 92 shows the available features that can be installed with the Horizon View Agent. You can leave all the default features selected. By default the View Persona Management feature will be selected as a feature to install. Scroll down the feature list to conrm this feature is enabled. You will also notice the default installation directory for Horizon View Agent. If you would like to modify it, click Change. When you have identied an installation directory or are ready to accept the default installation location, click Next.
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5. You have completed the conguration screens and are ready to install. If necessary, go back to make adjustments to earlier screens. When ready click Install.
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7. The Installer Completed screen appears when the installation is nished. Click Finish to close the Horizon View Agent installer.
8. An operating system restart is necessary to nalize the installation of the Horizon View Agent. Click Yes to initiate the OS restart.
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Exercise 3: Install Horizon View Remote Experience Agent to Enable HTML Access and Unity Touch on the Desktop Image Virtual Machine
This feature is new in View 5.2. This feature is part of a Horizon View Feature Pack. 1. Launch the VMware Horizon View Remote Experience Agent installer. This installer must be accessible from your virtual machine. Launch the installer with Run As Administrator option. When the launcher has loaded click Next.
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2. Read through the license agreement, accept the terms and conditions, and click Next.
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3. Figure 99 shows the default installation directory for Horizon View Remote Experience Agent. If you would like to modify it, click Change. When you have identied an installation directory or are ready to accept the default installation location, click Next.
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4. You have completed the conguration screens and are ready to install. If necessary, go back to make adjustments to earlier screens. When ready click Install.
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6. The Installer Completed screen appears when the installation is nished. Click Finish to close the Horizon View Remote Experience Agent installer.
Exercise 5: Install Custom Applications and Congure the Parent Virtual Machine Operating System
Install any custom applications that you want to have pre-installed on your parent virtual machine for Horizon View desktop deployment. Make any additional modications to the Windows operating system at this time. Follow Windows Activation procedures to ensure that your operating system is activated. When you have made all desired modications you are ready to continue.
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2. A dialog box with the different type of pools that can be deployed will be listed. In our exercise you will be deploying an Automated Pool. Select Automated Pool and then click Next.
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3. You will now specify the type of user assignment for the pool. Select Floating and click Next to continue.
4. Now you will select the type of virtual desktops you will deploy. Select View Composer linked clones and click Next.
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5. You will decide on a pool ID and Display name. You may optionally select a folder to organize your pools. Click Next to continue.
6. You will now adjust the Pool Settings to enable certain features. In this example, you will enable View Media Services for 3D Graphics and enable HTML Access for the desktop pool. Change the Allow users to choose protocol setting to No.
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7. In the Remote Display Protocol section, click the drop-down menu for 3D Renderer and select Automatic.
8. Scroll down the Pool Settings window to see the rest of the available options. Make sure the Enabled check box for HTML Access is checked. Now you will configure the amount of VRAM for 3D guests. Click Congure next to the drop-down menu for 3D Renderer.
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9. Use the slider to congure the amount of VRAM available to each virtual desktop guest. Select the amount of VRAM and click OK. You have now congured the settings for 3D graphics and enabled HTML Access.
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10. You will now set the Provisioning Settings. You must specify Virtual Machine Naming. Select the Use a naming pattern option and enter a naming pattern. You can adjust the naming pattern to meet your needs. One of the most common patterns is <poolname>-{n} which will display the poolname and then append an incremental desktop number as desktops in the pool are provisioned. You will also specify Pool Sizing for this pool. You should deploy a small number of desktops to test your initial pool deployment and then deploy a larger desktop pool once you have conrmed that your deployment was successful. Enter the Max number of desktops you wish to deploy for this pool. You will also select Provision all desktops up-front. Click Next to continue. Alternatively, you could Provision the desktops on demand and decide on the minimum number of desktops to have ready at initial pool deployment. Then any additional desktops would be provisioned as required up to the maximum number of desktops. You can try these different pool features during subsequent pool deployments.
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11. You will decide on the type of disks you can deploy with the pool. For this exercise, select Do not redirect disposable les. Click Next to continue.
12. You do not need to make any modications to the Storage Optimization options. Click Next to continue.
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13. Next you will review the vCenter Settings to select your Windows 7 template and associated options. Click Browse for the Parent VM eld.
14. Highlight the Windows 7 parent virtual machine you wish to use for the pool deployment. Click OK.
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16. Highlight the desired snapshot you wish to use for the pool deployment. Click OK.
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18. Highlight a folder location or, if you do not have a folder created, select the datacenter and click OK.
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20. Highlight the target host or cluster for your pool desktop deployment. Click OK.
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22. Select the host if you have not set up a resource pool or select a resource pool you would like to use. Click OK.
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24. Select a target datastore where your virtual desktops will be stored. You can leave the Storage Overcommit settings as the default Conservative. Click OK.
25. A warning may appear if you are storing your virtual desktops on a local datastore. Since we are using a single host we can ignore this warning. Click OK to continue.
26. Now you can review your vCenter Settings. When you are finished making any modifications click Next.
27. Now you will adjust the Advanced Storage Options. You may optionally select Use View Storage Accelerator. You will want to check the box to enable Other Options and then select Reclaim VM disk space. Adjust the value of Initiate reclamation when unused space on VM exceeds to a valid value. The recommended value is 1GB. Click Next to continue.
28. You will now modify the Guest Customization options. Adjust the AD container. Click Browse to view the available AD containers for your domain.
29. Select a valid OU or the default CN to store your Horizon View desktop computer account names. Click OK. This brings you back to the Guest Customization menu. Click Next.
30. A summary of all your pool settings will appear. You can click Back to make any modications or click Finish to deploy the pool.
31. You will be brought back to the pool inventory list. Click your desktop pool to check on the deployment status.
32. Now you will be brought to the pool settings overview. Click the Inventory tab to check the individual desktop deployment status.
33. Now you can monitor the deployment status for each of your desktops. Click the refresh icon to update the status.
34. When the desktop status has changed to Available your desktop will be ready to entitle and use. When all your desktops have changed to Available then your desktop pool will have been successfully deployed.
2. Here you will see a listing of all the entitlements to this particular desktop pool. To add an entitlement, click Add Entitlement.
3. The Find User or Group dialog box appears. You will use the search to query your domain controller for Users or Groups that you wish to entitle to this desktop pool. Narrow down your query using the dropdown menus and adding search terms and modiers. Click Find when you are ready to search. In this example, we have found a user named View User. Highlight your desired user and then click OK.
4. This user has now been entitled to this desktop pool. In the previous exercise you deployed a oating pool. With this feature you do not need to do additional assignments of users to a specic Horizon View desktop. Horizon View automatically assigns an available desktop when an entitled user rst logs on. Be sure to size your pool to accommodate the amount of entitled users.
5. Click Pools from the left hand navigation menu to return to the inventory list of deployed desktop pools. From here you can see a high-level summary of the desktop pool that shows the number of entitled users to the pool.
2. The Add Desktop Assignment dialog box will appear. Select the Horizon View desktop you wish to assign the ThinApp to and click Add. This will add the desktop to the assignment list. Repeat this for each desktop you wish to add to the assignment list. When your listing is complete, click OK. You have successfully assigned the ThinApp to a desktop or desktops.
3. Return to the ThinApps inventory list and select a ThinApp you wish to assign to a desktop pool. Click the Add Assignment drop down menu and select Assign Desktops.
4. The Add Pool Assignment dialog box will appear. Select the Horizon View desktop pool you wish to assign the ThinApp to and click Add. This will add the desktop pool to the assignment list. Repeat this for each desktop pool you wish to add to the assignment list. When your listing is complete, click OK. You have successfully assigned the ThinApp to a desktop pool or pools.
2. Enter the fully qualied domain name of your View Connection Server in the Hostname eld and click Continue.
3. If you are using the default self-signed SSL certicates an Untrusted View Connection warning appears. You can modify Horizon View Client security settings by adjusting the policies on the Horizon View Connection Server. Refer to the Horizon View Security Guide for additional information. Click Show Certicate to ensure the certicate is the valid. When ready, click Continue.
4. You will be prompted to enter your user credentials. This user must be entitled to a desktop pool or specic desktop.
5. After the credentials are validated a group of available desktops for that user will be shown. Click the desktop that you wish to connect to.
7. When you are ready to terminate your View Desktop Session, click the disconnect icon at the top left of the Horizon View Client menu bar.
New in View 5.2 is the ability to connect to a Horizon View desktop from an HTML5-enabled web browser. This feature is part of a Horizon View Feature Pack. This is currently supported on Horizon View desktops that meet the following criteria: Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit) Windows XP SP3 (32-bit) Windows Vista (32-bit) View Agent 5.2 or later Currently supported web browsers: Chrome 22+ IE 9+ Safari 5.1.7+ Firefox 16+ Mobile Safari, iOS 6+ Refer to the Horizon View Feature Pack release notes for a full listing of supported desktops and browsers.
The desktop you are connecting to via HTML Access must have been deployed in a pool with the HTML Access feature enabled. 1. Open a supported web browser and navigate to the address of your View Composer Server. You will see two options. One is to download the View Client and the other is to launch HTML Access. Click VMware Horizon View HTML Access.
2. You will prompted to enter your user credentials. This user must be entitled to a desktop pool or specic desktop.
3. After the credentials are validated, the available desktops for the user will be shown. Click the desktop that you wish to connect to.
4. You have successfully connected to your Horizon View desktop using HTML Access.
5. You can navigate and use your desktop as you normally would. The View HTML Access menu hides at the top of the web browser. Click the down arrow to make it visible.
6. To disconnect from your session, click your username at the top right of the HTML Access menu bar. From the drop-down menu select Disconnect or Disconnect and Log Off.
8. You have successfully disconnected from your Horizon View desktop session. You will be brought back to your list of available desktops. From here you can log off or connect to a different Horizon View desktop if one is available.
New in View 5.2 is Unity Touch, the easier way to use Windows on a mobile device. Unity Touch provides numerous user experience enhancements and is available on iPhone, iPad, or Android 4.2 devices using the VMware Horizon View 2.0 clients. Figure 161 shows how you can connect to a Horizon View Desktop from the iOS View Client on the iPad. 1. Launch the Horizon View Client from your iOS mobile device. Click the + at the top left menu bar. You will be prompted to enter the host name or IP address of the View Composer Server. Enter the information and click Connect.
2. If you are using the default self-signed SSL certicates an Untrusted View Connection warning will be shown. You can modify View Client security settings by adjusting the policies on the View Connection Server. Refer to the Horizon View Security Guide for additional information. Click View Certicate to ensure the certicate is the valid. When ready click Continue.
3. You will prompted to enter your user credentials. This user must be entitled to a desktop pool or specic desktop.
4. After your credentials are validated, available desktops for that user will be listed. Click the desktop that you wish to connect to.
5. You have successfully connected to your Horizon View desktop from the iOS Horizon View client. The mobile View Clients have extra features that help you interact with your Horizon View desktop. A help box will appear to give you guidance on using your Horizon View desktop from a mobile client to ensure the best user experience.
6. On the iOS View Client, a menu button will be available as an overlay on your screen to help you. A few of the items that you can do from this menu are: disconnect your session or bring up the keyboard. Click the Disconnect button to initiate a session disconnect.
7. A dialog box will appear for you to conrm your session disconnect. Click Yes.
8. You have successfully disconnected from your Horizon View desktop session and will be brought back to the listing of available Horizon View desktops. You are free to close the application or reconnect to your Horizon View desktop.
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