In this chapter, we will look at how App Volumes integrates into the VMware Horizon View virtual desktop solution.

Back in Chapter 3, Designing and Building an App Volumes Deployment, we looked at the architecture of how App Volumes fits into the Horizon View pod and block reference architecture. Now we are going to complete the installation and configuration tasks to demonstrate how to build virtual desktop machines delivered by VMware Horizon View, with applications being delivered using App Volumes.

The following diagram illustrates how App Volumes is integrated with Horizon View:

Basically, you build and deploy your Horizon View environment as you normally would, with the addition of the App Volumes Agent that needs to be installed onto each of the virtual desktop machines you want to deliver applications to.