Prerequisites And System Requirements

The system requirements for deploying View Agent Direct-Connection Plugin are shown in Table 1.

PLATFORM OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE
VMware vSphere® 4.1 U3, 5.0, 5.0 U1, 5.0 U2, 5.0 U3, 5.1 U2 with EP5, and 5.5 U1a with EP4. (All virtual desktops must be run on vSphere 5 ESXi™ hosts).

Each virtual machine should be configured with a sufficient amount of video RAM for PCoIP to operate correctly (e.g., 128MB).

Windows XP Professional SP3 32bit.
Windows 7 SP1 Enterprise or Professional Edition (32 or 64 bit).
Windows 7 Enterprise or Professional Edition (32 or 64 bit).

Windows Vista Business or Enterprise SP2 32 bit.

Windows 8 Enterprise and Professional (32 or 64 bit).

Windows 8.1 Enterprise and Professional (32 or 64 bit).

Windows 8.1 U1 Enterprise and Professional (32 or 64 bit).

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard or Enterprise Edition 64bit
Remote Desktop Service is NOT installed
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter Edition 64bit
Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter Edition 64bit
Windows Server 2012 R2Standard or Datacenter Edition 64bit
Remote Desktop Service is installed

Table 1: System Requirements for Deploying View Agent Direct-Connection Plugin