VMware VIEW COMPOSER 2.5 - ARCHITECTURE PLANNING EN-000350-01 Specifications download pdf (Page 12)

View Agent

You install the View Agent service on all virtual machines, physical systems, and Terminal Service servers that

you use as sources for View desktops. This agent communicates with View Client to provide features such as

connection monitoring, virtual printing, and access to locally connected USB devices.

If the desktop source is a virtual machine, you first install the View Agent service on that virtual machine and

then use the virtual machine as a template or as a parent of linked clones. When you create a pool from this

virtual machine, the agent is automatically installed on every virtual desktop.

You can install the agent with an option for single sign-on. With single sign-on, users are prompted to log in

only when they connect to View Connection Server and are not prompted a second time to connect to a virtual

desktop.

View Administrator

This Web-based application allows administrators to configure View Connection Server, deploy and manage

View desktops, control user authentication, and troubleshoot end user issues.

When you install a View Connection Server instance, the View Administrator application is also installed. This

application allows administrators to manage View Connection Server instances from anywhere without having

to install an application on their local computer.

View Composer

You install this software service on a vCenter Server instance that manages virtual machines. View Composer

can then create a pool of linked clones from a specified parent virtual machine. This strategy reduces storage

costs by up to 90 percent.

Each linked clone acts like an independent desktop, with a unique host name and IP address, yet the linked

clone requires significantly less storage because it shares a base image with the parent.

Because linked-clone desktop pools share a base image, you can quickly deploy updates and patches by

updating only the parent virtual machine. End users' settings, data, and applications are not affected. As of

View 4.5, you can also use linked-clone technology for View desktops that you download and check out to use

on local systems.

vCenter Server

This service acts as a central administrator for VMware ESX servers that are connected on a network. vCenter

Server, formerly called VMware VirtualCenter, provides the central point for configuring, provisioning, and

managing virtual machines in the datacenter.

In addition to using these virtual machines as sources for View desktop pools, you can use virtual machines

to host the server components of VMware View, including Connection Server instances, Active Directory

servers, and vCenter Server instances.

You can install View Composer on the same server as vCenter Server to create linked-clone desktop pools.

vCenter Server then manages the assignment of the virtual machines to physical servers and storage and

manages the assignment of CPU and memory resources to virtual machines.

You install vCenter Server in a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 server, preferably on a VMware virtual machine.

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