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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

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
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Introduction to App Volumes
1. 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
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2. Architectural and Feature Overview
2. Architectural and Feature Overview
App Volumes components
The App Volumes architecture
Network ports
Summary
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3. Designing and Building an App Volumes Deployment
3. Designing and Building an App Volumes Deployment
Phase I – Project definition
Phase II – Proving the technology
Phase III - Design and Deploy
Summary
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4. Installing and Configuring the App Volumes Software
4. Installing and Configuring the App Volumes Software
Prerequisites
App Volumes requirements
Downloading the App Volumes software
Installing the software
Summary
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5. A Guided Tour of the Management Console
5. 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
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6. Working with AppStacks
6. Working with AppStacks
Creating your first AppStack
Assigning and delivering AppStacks to end users
AppStack delivery process
Managing AppStacks
Summary
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7. Working with Writable Volumes
7. Working with Writable Volumes
Creating Writable Volumes
Managing Writable Volumes
Summary
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8. Delivering ThinApp Packages with App Volumes
8. Delivering ThinApp Packages with App Volumes
What is ThinApp?
Creating a new ThinApp
Updating existing ThinApp packages
Summary
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9. Horizon View Integration
9. Horizon View Integration
Building and configuring a virtual desktop
Creating and configuring a desktop pool
Entitling desktops
Logging on to a View desktop
Summary
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10. Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenDesktop Environment
10. 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
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11. Deploying App Volumes in a RemoteApp Environment
11. 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
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12. Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenApp Environment
12. 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
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13. Deploying App Volumes in a Horizon View Hosted Apps Environment
13. 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
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14. Advanced Configuration and Other Options
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14. 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
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Index
Index

Using VHD In-Guest operation mode

We have talked in previous chapters about the ability of App Volumes to integrate into other technology solutions, but in this section we are going to look at that from a different perspective and look at how App Volumes supports disk formats other than VMware VMDK virtual disk files, in this case by supporting VHD files.

In this section, we are going to demonstrate how to set up an App Volumes environment that uses VHD.

Note

In order to use VHS disk files, you need a separate App Volumes Manager instance. You cannot run both VMDK and VHD-based environments on the same App Volumes Manager.

So in this section, we are going to run through the process of setting up such an environment.

Before starting, make sure you have configured a shared folder that can be used to store the AppStacks and has the appropriate permission levels:

  1. In this example, we have created a new virtual Windows 2012 R2 Server and named it app-vol-mgr-VHD.pvolab.com. We will install the new...
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