Upgrade View Composer Desktop Pools - VMware View Manager 4.5 Upgrade Manual

What to do next
If you use View Composer desktop pools, recompose or recreate the pools. See
Desktop Pools," on page 39.
Upgrade View Clients. See

Upgrade View Composer Desktop Pools

Part of the final phase of a VMware View upgrade includes upgrading View Composer desktop pools.
Upgrading pools that were created with View Composer requires that you use a snapshot taken after
upgrading View Agent on the parent virtual machine. View Agent 3.1.x and 4.0.x are not compatible with
View Composer 2.5. This limitation means that you must not use a View 4.0.x or 3.1.x master image, or snapshot,
when creating, recomposing, or refreshing a pool that uses features specific to View 4.5 . These View 4.5 features
include using a system-disposable disk (SDD), using a Sysprep customization specification, and attaching a
previously archived user-data disk (UDD) to an existing desktop.
Prerequisites
Complete the procedure described in
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page 21.
Complete the procedure described in
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Different Machine,"
If you are also upgrading ESX hosts and virtual machines, complete the procedure described in
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ESX Hosts and Virtual Machines,"
Complete the procedure described in
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parent virtual machine.
Plan maintenance windows carefully so that recreating and recomposing desktop pools will not
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overwhelm the storage array and ESX hosts.
Procedure
1 If you disabled provisioning of new virtual machines in preparation for the upgrade, enable provisioning
again.
2 Use the snapshot you created after upgrading the parent virtual machine to recreate or recompose desktop
pools.
Option
Nonpersistent pools
Persistent pools
3 If you changed the Refresh OS disk on logoff setting for a pool to Never in preparation for the upgrade,
change the setting back to reflect the appropriate refresh policy.
4 If you canceled any refresh or recompose operations for any desktop pools, schedule the tasks again.
What to do next
Upgrade View Clients. See
View Client with Local Mode,"
VMware, Inc.
"Upgrade View Clients,"
"Upgrade View Connection Servers in a Replicated Group,"
"Upgrade to View Composer 2.5 and vCenter Server 4.1 on a
on page 30 or "Upgrade View Composer Only,"
on page 35.
"Upgrade View Agent,"
Action
Delete View 3.1.x or 4.0.x virtual desktops from the pool and recreate the
desktop pool.
Recompose the desktop pool.
"Upgrade View Clients,"
on page 41.
Chapter 5 Upgrading VMware View Components
on page 40.
on page 25.
on page 38 for upgrading the agent in the
on page 40 and "Upgrade Offline Desktop Clients to
"Upgrade View Composer
on
"Upgrade
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