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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
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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

Sizing of your streaming file share


ThinApp streaming is a great method of deployment. It's easy to support since it only requires a standard Windows file server. Your ThinApp packages are easy to maintain using the in-place update. The downside is that it's hard to know how to size your streaming environment. That's because all networks are different, and all packages behave differently when streaming. Two virtualized Microsoft Office 2003 packages can behave very differently from each other. So the only way to efficiently size your streaming implementation is to investigate how your packages behave. That said, the load on the file server is very similar to the load that your normal document file server would bear. There's no difference from a file sharing point of view, if the file is an Excel spreadsheet or a ThinApp package. The file server handles the two types of files identically. If many users request the same package, the file server will probably cache most of the package. Therefore...