In the last three chapters, we have looked in detail at how to build and configure Microsoft and Citrix environments, both for published applications and virtual desktop environments, to take advantage of the App Volumes technology in delivering just-in-time applications.

This penultimate chapter is going to focus back on VMware technology and look at how you build and configure a Horizon View environment designed to deliver hosted applications to end users with the applications being configured as AppStacks and delivered by Horizon View.

The Horizon View hosted applications solution is not too dissimilar to the Microsoft or Citrix environments for published applications that we have covered previously, as it uses the Microsoft RDSH as its foundation. Horizon View then provides the connection broker elements, the same broker that is used to broker Horizon View virtual desktop machines, to connect end users to published...