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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

Launching AppStack-based published applications


In this final section, we are going to log in as an end user from one of the example desktop machines in order to make sure that the applications launch and run as we expect them to.

From the desktop, open a browser and enter https://rdsh.pvolab.com/rdweb in the address bar. If you see a warning about running an add-on for Microsoft Remote Desktop Web Access, then click on the message, and from the drop-down box, select Run Add-on.

You will now see the web page shown in the following screenshot:

Log in as the user [email protected], click on the button for This is a private computer, and then click on the Sign in button.

You will now see the Work Resources web page and the available RemoteApps. These should be the applications that were configured in the previous section, and are shown in the following screenshot:

Now that you have the applications available and published from the RDSH server, let's launch one and make sure it runs correctly...