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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 backup


The View Transfer Server has minimal backup requirements. The following components should be backed up in order to preserve the ability to fully restore the Transfer Server:

  • View Transfer Server SSL certificate

  • View Transfer Server repository

Details on how to back up these items will be discussed in the next two sections.

Backing up the View Transfer Server SSL certificate

The View Transfer Server SSL certificates are stored in PKCS#12 format within the Transfer Server installation folder. The default filenames are server.crt and server.key, and are stored in the Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\httpd\conf directory.

Note

There is no reason to backup the default self-signed certificates that are installed with the View Transfer Server unless measures were taken to get the View clients to trust them, such as importing them into the client trusted root certificate store. If custom certificates were installed using the process described in Chapter 12, Managing...