App Volumes Writable Volumes offer the ability to capture user-installed applications so that they can persist across Horizon client sessions. A common use case for this is with non-persistent desktops, which, as you know, are disposed of when a user logs out. App Volumes provides Horizon administrators with another tool that allows them to leverage the efficiencies of non-persistent desktops, while still offering users the customization capabilities of persistent desktops.
While writable volumes still offer options for capturing and persistent user profile data, VMware prefers you to use User Environment Manager for that task. This chapter will focus solely on capturing user-installed applications.
Writable volumes are assigned using a similar workflow to that of AppStacks. The following steps outline the procedure used to create a writable volume:
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