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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 Composer recovery


The same process is used to recover or move View Composer to a new host server. To retain the current settings, all that needs to be restored is the View Composer database and the RSA key container or custom SSL certificate.

Restoring the View Composer database

The View Composer database should be restored using the native View command-line tool sviconfig.exe. This tool is located within the install directory of View Composer, which is at the following location on our sample server:

D:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware View Composer

You will need the following information to restore the database:

  • Data Source Name (DSN): The name of your DSN connection on the View Connection Server. On our sample server, the name is composer.

  • View Composer database username. On our sample server, the name is svc-composer.

  • View Composer database password. On our sample server, the password is Password123.

  • Backup file path: This is the location of the Backup-2012-1017000010-viewcomp-01_vjason_local...