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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 Security Server recovery


The simplest way to restore a View Security Server is to simply reinstall the software using the steps provided earlier in this chapter, and re-pair the Security Server with the View Connection Server. The following steps outline how to restore a View Security Server in a scenario where the previous one is unavailable:

  1. Configure a new Security Server host using the same server name and IP address.

  2. Log on to the View Manager Admin console using an AD account that has administrative permissions within View.

  3. Open the View Configuration | Servers page within the console.

  4. Select the Security Servers tab in the Servers window.

  5. Highlight the Security Server you wish to remove, click on the More Commands option, and then the Prepare for Upgrade or Reinstallation button as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. Click on OK in the Warning window to dissociate the Security Server from the Connection Server.

    Note

    This process permanently dissociates the Security Server from the View...