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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 Horizon View hosted apps


In this final section, we are going to test the solution that we have built in this chapter, by delivering Horizon View hosted applications that are contained within an AppStack:

  1. Open a console to one of the example desktop machines. Before you can test anything, the first thing you need to do is make sure you have the Horizon View Client software installed onto that machine. You can download the software from the following link:

    www.vmware.com/go/viewclients

    We are not going to cover the installation of the Horizon View Client software, but during the installation it will ask you to enter the details of the Horizon View Connection Server. In this example, the server is called view-cs.pvolab.com.

    Once installed, launch the Horizon View Client, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Double-click the icon for the Horizon View Connection Server. In this example, there just a single server. You will then see the Login box, as shown in the following...