You have administrative privileges on the machine.The server you are installing the Security Server on does not have the Terminal Services role installed.You are not installing the Horizon View Security Server on the same server as the Connection or Composer Server.Download and launch the Connection Server installation on the server you have configured for Horizon View Security Server. This is because the Horizon View Security Server installation is part of the Horizon View Connection Server installation.

If you look for the Horizon View Security Server installation from VMware downloads, you will not find it. VMware Horizon View Security Server installation Per the VMware View Ports and Network Connectivity documentation, Horizon View Security Servers or the exposed load balancer IP address will require the following ports to be open from the front-end firewall: Source Horizon View Security Server topology (courtesy of VMware) This minimizes the attack surface on the internal Horizon View Connection Server(s) as well as the ports opened to the outside world. The Horizon View Security Server is actually a special kind of Horizon View Connection Server that runs a small subset of the Horizon View Connection Server functions.Īs per best practices in VMware documentation, a Horizon View Security Server generally sits in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) network and acts as a proxy for Horizon View connections destined for the internal Horizon View Connection Server(s). What is VMware Horizon View Security Server?Īs the name 'Security Server' describes, this component of Horizon View has the sole purpose of securing the VMware Horizon environment especially when it is public facing. In this post, we will look at VMware Horizon View Security Server installation and the requirements to integrate the Horizon View Security Server within the Horizon topology. The VMware Horizon View Security Server is another component of the Horizon View infrastructure that provides an additional layer of security between the Internet and the internal Horizon View infrastructure.

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