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Learning VMware App Volumes

Learning VMware App Volumes

By : von Oven, Peter V Oven
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Learning VMware App Volumes

Learning VMware App Volumes

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

As we stated at the beginning of the previous section, VMware App Volumes ships with four different types of template as standard:

  • AppStack application template (20 GB)
  • Writable Volumes template for user installed applications (10 GB)
  • Writable Volumes template for user profiles only (10 GB)
  • Writable Volume for user profiles and user installed applications (10 GB)

The standard template for creating Writable Volumes is by default configured to be 10 GB is size. Although this is thin provisioned, and as with the AppStack sizing, it might not make sense to use a 10 GB disk if you have users installing just a handful of small applications that are only a few MB's in size.

As with the resizing of AppStacks, the process for resizing and customizing Writable Volumes is exactly the same. The key difference is the location of the templates in the datastore, and also there is a separate tab in the App Volumes Manager console for importing the new Writable Volumes templates...

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