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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
Book Image

VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By: Peter Bjork

Overview of this book

VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. "VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials" shows you how to deploy ThinApp packages in order to improve the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. Application virtualization improves the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. ThinApp eliminates application conflicts, reducing the need and cost of recoding and regression testing. In this book you will learn about how application virtualization works and how to deploy ThinApp packages. You will learn how to update and tweak ThinApp Projects before distribution. This book will then cover design and implementation considerations for future ThinApp projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Designing for a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) implementation


Virtual desktops, what a great idea! VDI offers central management of your desktops. On paper, this is a perfect solution. In reality, it's still a great solution but only for certain use cases. Very few enterprises can use VDI for their whole user base, but where it's possible it can be a great solution. The holy grail in VDI is to have only one Golden Image, shared by all users. User-unique changes are stored as delta changes. Hardly anyone manages to get down to only one Golden Image. One thing you want to make sure though, is that the application entitlement is not forcing you to manage many different Golden Images.

Furthermore, application entitlement shouldn't change the user-unique delta disk. If you achieve this, you will require much less expensive SAN storage, and by minimizing your SAN investment, your VDI ROI (return on investment) and TCO (total cost of ownership) calculation will become much more appealing...