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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

The VOLUMES menu


The VOLUMES menu presents you with all the tasks you need to create AppStacks and Writable Volumes and then assign them to users. Click on on the VOLUMES menu (7). You will now see that you have five different options to choose from, displayed as tabs, as shown in the following diagram:

The first tab is for configuring AppStacks, so let's start there.

AppStacks

The AppStacks tab is shown in the following diagram:

Within the AppStacks configuration tab, there are several configuration options. The first option you have is to create a new AppStack by clicking on the Create AppStack button (8). This will launch the Create an AppStack page. We will cover the process for creating AppStacks in Chapter 6, Working with AppStacks.

Next, you have the option that imports existing AppStacks by clicking on the Import AppStacks button (9). You can also rescan the storage by clicking on the Rescan button (10) to check the accessibility of any existing AppStacks.

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