Administrator Guide
This section provides information about how to congure a VMware broker connection on your ThinOS device, and other VMware
features that you can congure on ThinOS.
Conguring the VMware broker connection
To congure the VMware broker setup:
1. From the desktop menu, click System Setup, and then click Remote Connections.
The Remote Connections dialog box is displayed.
2. In the Broker Setup tab, from the drop-down list, select VMware view, and do the following:
• Broker Server—Enter the IP address/Hostname/FQDN of the Broker Server.
• Auto Connect List—Enter the name of the desktops that you want to launch automatically after logging in to the
respective broker. More than one desktop can be entered. Each desktop name is separated by semicolon, and is case-
sensitive.
• Security mode—Select the preferred Security mode from the following options:
– Warning—Warn Security requires FQDN address with self-signed certicate, or without any certicate, but
corresponding warning message is displayed for user to continue.
– Full—Full Security requires FQDN address with domain certicate.
– Low—Security allows FQDN/IP address with/without certicate.
– Default—Follows global security mode settings.
• Connection Protocol—From the drop-down list, select the type of protocol connection. By default, the option is set to
Server Default.
NOTE: The PCoIP only connection protocol is applicable only to PCoIP clients. If you do not install Horizon
package, then the Blast only protocol option is not available for selection. The connection protocols are not
available for non-PCoIP clients without the Horizon package.
The available options are:
– Server default—Select this protocol connection to display the desktop with default protocol as congured in the
VMware View Admin console, for each pool in the broker. If a desktop pool is congured with default protocol as RDP in
the View Admin console, then only the RDP connection of the desktop is displayed in ThinOS after users sign in to the
device.
– All Supported—Select this protocol connection to display the desktop in all the available connections, when a desktop
pool is congured to allow users to select protocol as yes. If a desktop is congured with default protocol as PCoIP and
allow user to select protocol as no, then ThinOS only displays the desktop in the PCoIP connection.
– RDP only—Select this protocol connection to display only the desktop in RDP connection. If a desktop pool is
congured with default protocol as PCoIP in the View Admin console, and allow user to select protocol as no, then this
desktop is not displayed in ThinOS after user signs in to the device.
– PCoIP only—This option is available only for PCoIP enabled clients. Select this protocol connection to display only the
desktop in the PCoIP connection, for each pool in the broker. If a desktop pool is congured with default protocol as
RDP in the View Admin console, and allow user to select protocol as no, then this desktop is not displayed in ThinOS
after user signs in to the device.
– Blast only—VMware Blast display protocol can be used for remote applications and for remote desktops that use
virtual machines or shared-session desktops on an RDS host. Select this protocol connection to display the desktop
with the Blast protocol.
• Log in anonymously using Unauthenticated Access—Select this check box to anonymously log in to the VMware session
with application remoting.
3. Click OK to save the settings.
Using VMware Horizon View broker and desktop
VMware Horizon View Broker timeout—The VMware Horizon View Broker timeout does not force the user to sign out from the
broker anymore when the secure tunnel is enabled.
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