VMware virtualizes computing, from the data center to the cloud to mobile devices, to help our customers be more agile, responsive, and profitable. Supported operating systems on host computers; Operating system Supported by VMware Workstation; Windows Server 2012 R2: 10.0 and later: Windows Server 2012: 9.0 and later: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1: 8.0 and later: Windows. VMware Horizon View Connection Server SSL Certificate How-to deployment and planning. Using SAN certificate might be the way to go as wildcard certifica. VMware View; Original author(s) VMware: Developer(s) VMware: Stable release.
VMware Horizon View Connection Server SSL Certificate How- to. VMware Horizon View Connection Server SSL Certificate. It says that the certificate is untrusted and that you have to install a valid (not a self- signed) SSL on this server.
So you’ll have have a valid certificate. You have two options: 1. Commercial certificate. Self- signed certificate with Microsoft certification authority, which you can add as a role to one of your VMs in your domain. VMware recommends using valid SSL certificates issued by a valid Certificate Authority (CA) like . If there will be, you.
The tool can be used to automate the process of uploading certificates and restarting the different components of v. Center, but on the list of the v. Center components the Horizon View connection server is not present, as Horizon View is standalone product. The setup don’t differ from the steps I’ve written for View 5.
You can find the whole serie of how- to setup VMware View in a lab here. The only thing which is causing “a problem” now with View 5. Connection Server – the self- signed SSL certificate. Create Certificate Template with Active Directory Certificate Services. In my case I’m using Windows Server 2. AD CS, but you can also use W 2. Launch the AD CS console and right click the “Certificate Templates” > and then Manage > to bring up the second console called “Certificate Templates.
Check the screenshot below. Once done click the Duplicate Template on a Web server template. We’re doing this to obtain an option to request web server certificate in addition to the only one default option – computer. Add this group to the Security Tab on the properties of the new template and give this group a Write and Enroll permission, in addition to the default read permission. As a compatibility, I’ve selected 2. Allow private key to be exported. Add client authentication to the list.
Click to enlarge to see the details! If. VMware Documentation: http: //pubs. ICbase/PDF/horizon- view- 5.
VMware- View- Evaluators- Guide. Excellent how- to’s. This tutorial helped me to validate the installation and questions I had about View 5. We saw that even if the composer self- signed certificate error can be accepted and the green light let’s you go through, its not the same for the View connection server. So the Microsoft PKI is a must as the default View connection server certificate isn’t accepted.
It’s logical as VMware want us to use real , commercial certificates. As a result, if you want to avoid that the only way is to build an enterprise root PKI, create (clone) your own template and then issue a request. If you find it useful, just share. The full serie – VMware View 5 Install, configure – How- to in my lab .
As a quick recap of this series we are installing VMware Horizon View 5.2 for a small pilot of a Windows 8 VDI desktop. In Part 1 we installed the Connection Server, in Part 2 we configured an SSL certificate, and in Part 3 we.
This is the ninth article in a series on the basics of VMware View. One of the most important VMware View components is the Connection Server, because it ensures that users are connected to their virtual desktop. External URL By default, the FDQN of the host is required by View client in order to establish a connection with the View Connection Server. This information will not be available to clients who attempt to contact the server. Since my article “VMware View Agent Direct-Connection Plugin Explained” I have received several questions about the use of the plug-in with NAT/PNAT. Most of the questions came from VMware employees, but also from partners.