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Learning VMware App Volumes

By : Peter von Oven, Peter V Oven
Book Image

Learning VMware App Volumes

By: Peter von Oven, Peter V Oven

Overview of this book

App Volumes provides a virtualized, real-time application delivery engine for virtual desktop infrastructure and is designed to enable VDI deployments to ensure greater flexibility, agility, and cost reduction. This book starts with an in-depth overview of the architecture and components used to design an optimized solution. We then show you how to install and configure App Volumes for different use cases such as VMware View integration, using VMware ThinApp, Citrix XenApp, and more. Throughout the chapters, we provide hints, tips, and tricks as well as best practices. By the end of the book, you will have built a working App Volumes environment and acquired the skills to build and run a production environment.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Learning VMware App Volumes
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Assigning and delivering AppStacks to end users


In the previous section, we covered the process of creating AppStacks. If you followed the Lab examples, you will now have four AppStacks ready to be assigned to your end users.

In this section, we are going to cover the next phase and look at how we configure the assignment of those AppStacks to end users, as well as how the delivery process works.

Assigning the Visio and Adobe Reader AppStacks

We are going to demonstrate the assignment process using the Visio AppStack, by assigning it to the Engineering group. As part of this exercise, we are also going to assign the Adobe Reader AppStack to all end users. Follow these steps:

  1. If you are not already logged in, log in to App Volumes Manager. Click on the VOLUMES menu option and then the AppStacks tab, as shown in the following diagram:

  2. Check the box next to the AppStack you want to assign to a user. In our example, we will check the box for Visio Pro 2013 (1).

  3. Click on the Assign button (2). You...