Migrate View Composer To The New Machine - VMware View Manager 4.5 Upgrade Manual

5 Create a 64-bit domain server name (DSN) for vCenter Server and a 64-bit DSN for View Composer.
For instructions, see the vSphere 4.1 Upgrade Guide and the VMware View Installation Guide.
6 Download and run the installer for View Composer 2.5, which is the version included with
VMware View 4.5.
You can download the installer from the VMware Web site.
7 Verify that the View Composer service starts after the installer wizard finishes.
View Composer and vCenter Server instances are upgraded and are backward-compatible with existing
View 3.1.3 or 4.0.1 View Clients and with desktop sources that have the View 4.0.1 or 4.1 Agent installed.
What to do next
Create a test desktop pool and verify that virtual desktops from the test pool work as expected.
If you upgraded vCenter Server, perform the post-upgrade tasks described in the vSphere 4.1 Upgrade Guide.
At your next maintenance window, continue with the VMware View upgrade. See
Virtual Machines,"

Migrate View Composer to the New Machine

After you prepare the source machine for migration, you must perform certain tasks on the destination
machine. If you do not use the vCenter Server data migration tool, you can perform the required tasks manually.
Some of the steps in this procedure would be performed automatically if you use the vCenter Server data
migration tool. You might choose not to use the tool if you want to perform the upgrade incrementally so that
you can verify at every step that the upgrade is successful. To use the data migration tool instead of performing
this procedure, see
Prerequisites
Complete the required tasks on the source machine. See
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Migration," on page 30.
Verify that the Microsoft .NET Framework and the ASP.NET IIS registration tool are installed on the source
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and destination computers. See the topic in the VMware View Administrator's Guide about preparing a
Microsoft .NET Framework for migrating RSA keys.
Verify that you have a domain user account with administrative privileges on the hosts that you will use
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to run the installer and perform the upgrade.
Verify that you have the correct license keys for vSphere if you are upgrading Virtual Infrastructure
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components to vSphere.
Print or have available the vSphere 4.0 Upgrade Guide and the vSphere 4.1 Upgrade Guide.
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on page 35.
"Use the Data Migration Tool to Migrate to the New Machine,"
Chapter 5 Upgrading VMware View Components
"Upgrade ESX Hosts and
on page 32.
"Prepare the Source Machine for View Composer
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