Before you start the App Volumes installation, you need to have the following in place:
An Active Directory account that has read access to the base DN so that App Volumes Manager can query Active Directory users and groups.
An Active Directory user accounts with the following permissions:
Standard permissions for setup/connection
Administrator-level access to allow the installation of applications into Writable Volumes
A vCenter administrator account that has administration permissions at the data center level.
Local or remote access to a SQL database. In a production environment, the recommendation would be for a remote database with enterprise-class availability, but for a pilot or POC environment, you can use SQL Express. It is included as a part of the App Volumes software download package. App Volumes supports the following versions:
SQL Express 2008 R2
SQL 2008 R2 or 2012 (Standard or Enterprise Edition)
In case a firewall is used between system components, ports
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