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VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

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VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

VMware View Connection Server – ADAM Database backup


View Connection Server stores the View Connection Server configuration data in the View LDAP repository. View Composer stores the configuration data for linked clone desktops in the View Composer database.

When you use View Administrator to perform backups, the Connection Server backs up the View LDAP configuration data and the View Composer database. Both sets of backup files will be stored in the same location. The LDAP data is exported in LDAP data interchange format (LDIF).

If you have multiple View Connection Server(s) in a replicated group, you only need to export data from one of the instances. All replicated instances contain the same configuration data. It is a not good practice to rely on replicated instances of View Connection Server as your backup mechanism. When the Connection Server synchronizes data across the instances of Connection Server, any data lost on one instance might be lost in all the members of the group. If the...