Now that we have described the architecture of how App Volumes fits into a Citrix XenDesktop environment, the next thing we need to have is a virtual desktop machine image built, containing all the components required for it to run.
This build process is exactly the same as you would follow for building any other XenDesktop-based virtual desktop machine; however, you now need to include App Volumes Agent as part of the image build.
As previously mentioned, we are going to use a VMware vSphere environment to host the Citrix components of the lab environment.
The process is illustrated in the following diagram:
In the Example Lab, we have followed this process and created a template called XenDesktop Gold Image, which will be used to create example virtual desktop machines.
Now that we have a virtual desktop machine built and ready to use, we can create and configure a machine catalog and then a delivery group to entitle an end user to use the virtual...