
Hardware Requirements for Standalone View Composer
With View 5.1 and later releases, View Composer is no longer required to be installed on the same physical
or virtual machine as vCenter Server. If you install View Composer on a separate server, you must use a
dedicated physical or virtual machine that meets specific hardware requirements.
A standalone View Composer installation works with vCenter Server installed on a Windows Server
computer and with the Linux-based vCenter Server Appliance. VMware recommends having a one-to-one
mapping between each View Composer service and vCenter Server instance.
Table 3‑2. View Composer Hardware Requirements
Hardware Component Required Recommended
Processor 1.4 GHz or faster Intel 64 or
AMD 64 processor with 2 CPUs
2GHz or faster and 4 CPUs
Networking One or more 10/100Mbps
network interface cards (NICs)
1Gbps NICs
Memory 4GB RAM or higher 8GB RAM or higher for deployments of 50 or more
View desktops
Disk space 40GB 60GB
IMPORTANT The physical or virtual machine that hosts View Composer must use a static IP address.
Database Requirements for View Composer
View Composer requires an SQL database to store data. The View Composer database must reside on, or be
available to, the View Composer server host.
If a database server already exists for vCenter Server, View Composer can use that existing database server
if it is a version listed in Table 3-3. For example, View Composer can use the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or
2008 Express instance provided with vCenter Server. If a database server does not already exist, you must
install one.
View Composer supports a subset of the database servers that vCenter Server supports. If you are already
using vCenter Server with a database server that is not supported by View Composer, continue to use that
database server for vCenter Server and install a separate database server to use for View Composer and
View Manager database events.
IMPORTANT If you create the View Composer database on the same SQL Server instance as vCenter Server,
do not overwrite the vCenter Server database.
Table 3-3 lists the supported database servers and versions. For a complete list of database versions
supported with vCenter Server, see the VMware vSphere Compatibility Matrixes on the VMware vSphere
documentation Web site.
The versions of vCenter Server listed in the table column headings are general. For specific supported
update versions of each vCenter Server release, see the VMware vSphere Compatibility Matrixes on the
VMware vSphere documentation Web site.
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