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Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

VMware Horizon View helps you simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control. This book will introduce you to all of the components of the VMware Horizon View suite, walk you through their deployment, and show how they are used. We will also discuss how to assess your virtual desktop resource requirements, and build an optimized virtual desktop. "Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2" will provide you the information needed to deploy and administer your own end-user computing infrastructure. This includes not only the View components themselves, but key topics such as assessing virtual desktop resource needs, and how to optimize your virtual desktop master image. You will learn how to design and deploy a performant, flexible and powerful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Horizon View. You will implement important components and features, such as VMware View Connection Server, VMware View Composer, VMware View Transfer Server, and VMware View Security Server."Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2" will take you through application virtualization with VMware ThinApp, the implementation of Persona Management, and creation of Desktop Pools. We then cover View Client options, Desktop maintenance, and Virtual Desktop Master Image. Finally we discuss View SSL certificates management, Group Policies, PowerCLI, and VMware View Design and Maintenance to help you get the most out of VMware View.If you want to learn how to design, implement and administrate a complex, optimized desktop virtualization solution with VMware View, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

View Transfer Server recovery


The settings for the View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server repository are stored independently within the View Connection Server AD LDS database; as such they are restored separately, and only if required. The restore process for both components is described in the next two sections.

Restoring the View Transfer Server SSL certificate

The View Transfer Server SSL certificates can be restored as part of the installation of a replacement View Transfer Server. The following steps outline the process used to restore the SSL certificates:

  1. If required, reinstall the View Transfer Server software on a server with the same name as the previous Transfer Server.

  2. Stop the VMware View Transfer Server service.

  3. Restore the server.crt and server.key files to the Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\httpd\conf directory.

  4. Start the VMware View Transfer Server service.

  5. Use a web browser to access the Transfer Server web page over https and verify that the expected SSL certificate...