Horizon View 5.3

The View Security Server is VMware’s method of addressing this.  This component of the Horizon View environment contains a subset of the Connection Server components, and it is designed to sit...

Horizon View is primarily managed from the View Administrator web-based management interface.  This interface is based on Adobe Flex, so you will need a Flash-enabled web browser.  I hope that this...

Some of the other things that a Connection Server does are: Run the View Administrator web application that is used for managing a Horizon View environment Host the ADLS (LDAP) database that contains...

Configuring the Composer Database Before Composer can be installed, a blank database must be configured on your SQL Server.  The steps to configure the database are: 1. Log into your database server and...

One of the options for virtual desktops in a Horizon View environment is a linked-clone desktop.  A linked-clone is a copy of a virtual machine, in this case a desktop, that...

There are five server components in a Horizon View environment.  These components, and their roles in the environment are: View Connection Server – the View Connection Server is main component of the...

The only desktops that are supported for virtual desktops in Horizon View 5.3 are Windows-based.  This includes the latest versions of the Windows Desktop operating system and Windows Server running Windows...

Horizon View is a virtual desktop environment, and the environment is based upon the vSphere platform.  The compatibility matrix for Horizon View 5.3 has not changed from the previous version, and...

What’s New in Horizon View 5.3 Support for virtual desktops running Windows Server 2008 R2 – this is perhaps the biggest new feature as it provides one avenue for providing VDI without...

Agenda Pag 1 – Introduction Pag 2 – What’s New Pag 3 – Prerequisites Pag 4 – Active Directory and vCenter Configuration Pag 5 – Horizon View Components Pag 6 – Composer Requirements Pag 7 – Installing View...