How to put Custom Disclaimer for VMware Horizon View 5.x portal

To put the custom disclaimer on the VMware Horizon View 5.x portal you need to actually use the portal download page and then follow the procedure below

■	Download the installer files for the types of View Client you want to use in your environment. The URL to the View Clients download page ishttps://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients.
■	Determine which HTTP server will host the installer files. The files can reside on a View Connection Server instance or on another HTTP server.

Procedure

1	On the HTTP server where the installer files will reside, create a folder for the installer files. For example, to place the files in a downloads folder on the View Connection Server host, in the default installation directory, use the following path: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\downloads The links to the files would then use URLs with the format https://server-name/downloads/client-installer-file-name. For example, a server with the name view.mycompany.com would use the following URL for View Client for Windows:https://view.mycompany.com/downloads/VMware-viewclient.exe. In this example, the folder named downloads is located in the webapps root folder.
2	Copy the View Client installer files into the folder. If the folder resides on View Connection Server, you can replace any files in this folder without having to restart the VMware View Connection Server service.
3	On the View Connection Server machine, copy the portal-links.properties file and the portal.properties file located ininstall-path\Server\Extras\PortalExamples.
4	Create a portal folder the directory C:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM, and copy the portal-links.properties andportal.properties files into the portal folder.
5	Edit C:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\portal\portal-links.properties file to point to the new location of the installer files. You can edit the lines in this file and add to them if you need to create more links. You can also delete lines. The following examples show properties for creating two links for View Client for Windows and two links for View Client for Linux: link.win=https://server-name/downloads/VMware-viewclient-x86_64-y.y.y-XXXX.exe#win link.win.1=https://server-name/downloads/VMware-viewclient-y.y.y-XXXX.exe#win link.linux=https://server-name/downloads/VMware-viewclient-x86_64-y.y.y-XXXX.rpm#linux link.linux.1=https://server-name/downloads/VMware-viewclient-y.y.y-XXXX.tar.gz#linux In this example, y.y.y-XXXX indicates the version and build number. The win text at the end of the line indicates that this link should appear in the browser if the client has a Windows operating system. Use win for Windows, linux for Linux, and mac for Mac OS X.
6	Edit C:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\portal\portal.properties file to specify the text to display for the links. These lines appear in the section of the file called # keys based on key names in portal-links.properties. The following example shows the text that corresponds to the links specified for link.win and link.win.1: text.win=View Client for Windows 32 bit Client users text.win.1=View Client for Windows 64 bit Client users
7	Restart the VMware View Connection Server service.

When end users enter the URL for View Connection Server, they see links with the text you specified. The links point to the locations you specified.

All the above steps are taken from the official Documentation for easy reference.

Hope you will now think about changing the portal :-)

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VMware Network Ports Diagrams (vSphere, vCloud, vCenter, SRM, VR, VCD, Update Manager)

For long time there are various Diagrams when it comes to configuring Firewall and make the changes on the Network to provide access to certain person to certain product.

There is lot of work done to make a singular Diagram available now.

A KB is also published http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2054806 which has a link to the PDF file.

But here is the Pictorial view of the Ports which includes the products such as vSphere, vCenter Server (w Linked Mode), VMware Update Manager, vCO, vCloud Director, ESXi, vSphere Client etc.

The port information are integrated on the diagram using information from various KB articles mentioned below.

1012382, 2031843, 2039095.

@simonlong_ has recently blogged about VMware Horizon View 5.2 Diagrams for Internal and External facing Designs.

Internal Facing

External Facing

While we are at the Firwall Diagrams you can refer the SRM diagrams blogged by Grant Orchard (@grantorchard and also refer the KB article 1009562 for details tables.


vSphere Replication

Site Recovery Manager

SRM and VR

SRM and VR

@Hany_Michael has contributed towards developing the diagram which is documented under KB 1030954. He also blogged about various other diagrams on his blog here.


vCloud Director Diagram

Hope you enjoy using all the Diagrams and configure your environment accordingly to make them secure and also go with your requirements.


These are also helpful in studying for VCP or VCAP exams as well.

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