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Learning VMware App Volumes

By : Peter von Oven, Peter V Oven
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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.

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Learning VMware App Volumes
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Mar, 2016 | 494 pages
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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Learning VMware App Volumes
Learning VMware App Volumes
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to App Volumes
Introduction to App Volumes
What is App Volumes?
How does it work?
Why do you need App Volumes?
A comparison between App Volumes, Mirage, ThinApp, and RDSH
App Volumes use cases
How to license App Volumes
How does this book work?
Introducing the Example Lab
Summary
2
Architectural and Feature Overview
Architectural and Feature Overview
App Volumes components
The App Volumes architecture
Network ports
Summary
3
Designing and Building an App Volumes Deployment
Designing and Building an App Volumes Deployment
Phase I – Project definition
Phase II – Proving the technology
Phase III - Design and Deploy
Summary
4
Installing and Configuring the App Volumes Software
Installing and Configuring the App Volumes Software
Prerequisites
App Volumes requirements
Downloading the App Volumes software
Installing the software
Summary
5
A Guided Tour of the Management Console
A Guided Tour of the Management Console
Logging in to the management console
The DASHBOARD page
The VOLUMES menu
The DIRECTORY menu
The INFRASTRUCTURE menu
The ACTIVITY menu
The CONFIGURATION menu
Summary
6
Working with AppStacks
Working with AppStacks
Creating your first AppStack
Assigning and delivering AppStacks to end users
AppStack delivery process
Managing AppStacks
Summary
7
Working with Writable Volumes
Working with Writable Volumes
Creating Writable Volumes
Managing Writable Volumes
Summary
8
Delivering ThinApp Packages with App Volumes
Delivering ThinApp Packages with App Volumes
What is ThinApp?
Creating a new ThinApp
Updating existing ThinApp packages
Summary
9
Horizon View Integration
Horizon View Integration
Building and configuring a virtual desktop
Creating and configuring a desktop pool
Entitling desktops
Logging on to a View desktop
Summary
10
Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenDesktop Environment
Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenDesktop Environment
Building and configuring a virtual desktop
Creating a machine catalog
Creating a delivery group
Logging on to a XenDesktop virtual desktop
Summary
11
Deploying App Volumes in a RemoteApp Environment
Deploying App Volumes in a RemoteApp Environment
Building and configuring an AppStack for RemoteApp delivery
Provisioning the RDSH AppStack
Assigning the AppStack to the RDSH server
Configuring applications for publishing
Launching AppStack-based published applications
Summary
12
Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenApp Environment
Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenApp Environment
Building and configuring an AppStack for XenApp
Provisioning the RDSH AppStack
Installing the Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent
Installing the App Volumes Agent
Assigning the AppStack to the XenApp RDSH Server
Launching AppStack-based XenApp applications
Summary
13
Deploying App Volumes in a Horizon View Hosted Apps Environment
Deploying App Volumes in a Horizon View Hosted Apps Environment
Building and configuring an AppStack for Horizon View hosted applications
Provisioning the RDSH AppStack
Installing the Horizon View Agent
Assigning the AppStack to the RDSH server
Configuring applications for publishing
Configuring a Horizon View application Farm
Configuring a Horizon View application pool
Launching AppStack-based Horizon View hosted apps
Summary
14
Advanced Configuration and Other Options
Advanced Configuration and Other Options
Customizing AppStack templates
Customizing Writable Volumes
Creating and working with Storage Groups
Advanced Agent configuration
Using VHD In-Guest operation mode
Upgrading to a new version of App Volumes
Summary
Index
Index

The DASHBOARD page

The first page you will see is the DASHBOARD page, as shown in the following screenshot:

The DASHBOARD page gives you an instant view of your App Volumes deployment and what's going on. You can see at a glance useful utilization statistics on user, computer, and AppStacks utilization as well as recent user logins, computer bootups, and AppStack attachments.

You will see in the Most Recent Computer Bootups section that there is already a virtual machine listed—PVOLAB\AV-PROVISION$. This is the virtual desktop machine we installed App Volumes Agent onto in Chapter 4, Installing and Configuring the App Volumes Software, and it will be used to provision AppStacks.

As part of that Agent installation, we entered the details of App Volumes Manager and that virtual desktop machine has therefore "checked in" with the manager.

While still on the DASHBOARD page, you will also see that, if you hover your mouse over any of the utilization boxes, you will get another level of detail. The...

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