Upgrades
Table Of Contents
- View Upgrades
- Contents
- View Upgrades
- Component Compatibility Matrix
- View Upgrade Overview
- System Requirements for Upgrades
- Preparing for a View Upgrade
- Upgrading View Server Components
- Upgrade View Composer
- Upgrade View Connection Servers in a Replicated Group
- Upgrade View Security Servers and Their Paired View Connection Servers
- Upgrading View Servers in a Cloud Pod Architecture
- Upgrade vCenter Server
- Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Upgrade ESXi Hosts and Their Virtual Machines
- Upgrading Remote Desktops and Horizon Client
- Post-Upgrade Tasks to Enable New Features in Your View Setup
- Applying View Patches
- Upgrading vSphere Components Separately in a View Environment
- Index
4 Run the installer that you downloaded for the patch release of View Connection Server.
For information about running the installer, see the View Installation document.
5 Follow the installation wizard prompts and click OK when asked to continue the installation with the
existing ADAM instance.
6 Verify that the VMware Horizon View Connection Server service restarts after the installer wizard
closes.
7 Repeat the previous steps for the other View Connection Server instances in the replicated group.
8 Repeat this process for View security servers.
What to do next
If applying the patch fails on one or more of the View Connection Server instances, see “Create a Replicated
Group After Reverting View Connection Server to a Snapshot,” on page 41.
Apply the patch to View Agent, if applicable.
Apply a Patch for View Agent
Applying a patch involves uninstalling the current version and then installing the patch version.
The following steps need to be performed on the parent virtual machine, for linked-clone desktop pools, or
on each virtual machine desktop in a full-clone pool, or on individual desktop virtual machines for pools
that contain only one virtual machine desktop.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have a domain user account with administrative privileges on the hosts that you will use to
run the patch installer.
Procedure
1 On all parent virtual machines, virtual machines used for full-clone templates, full clones in a pool, and
manually added individual virtual machines, download the installer file for the patch version of View
Agent.
Your contact at VMware will provide instructions for this download.
2 Use the Windows Add/Remove Programs utility to remove the previously installed View Agent.
3 Run the installer that you downloaded for the patch release of View Agent.
Step-by-step instructions for running the View Agent installer appear in Setting Up Desktop and
Application Pools in View.
4 If you disabled provisioning of new virtual machines in preparation for applying a patch to View
Composer, enable provisioning again.
5 For parent virtual machines that will be used to create linked-clone desktop pools, take a snapshot of
the virtual machine.
For instructions on taking snapshots, see the vSphere Client online help.
6 For linked-clone desktop pools, use the snapshot you created to recompose the desktop pools.
7 Verify that you can log in to the patched desktop pools with Horizon Client.
8 If you canceled any refresh or recompose operations for any linked-clone desktop pools, schedule the
tasks again.
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