Sign In Start Free Trial
Account

Add to playlist

Create a Playlist

Modal Close icon
You need to login to use this feature.
  • Book Overview & Buying Learning VMware App Volumes
  • Table Of Contents Toc
  • Feedback & Rating feedback
Learning VMware App Volumes

Learning VMware App Volumes

By : von Oven, Peter V Oven
5 (1)
close
close
Learning VMware App Volumes

Learning VMware App Volumes

5 (1)
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)
close
close
15
Index

Phase I – Project definition

In this first section, we are going to look at how we approach the project. This is broken down into four steps, as shown in the following diagram:

Phase I – Project definition

Let's start by looking at the business drivers.

Identifying business drivers

It may be an obvious point to make, but the key to identifying the business drivers is to really understand what you want to evaluate. By this, we mean is it a strategic decision based on the need to transform your organization with new working initiatives, or is there a more compelling event, such as the end of life of an operating system or application? It may simply be the need to reduce cost.

Whatever the case, you need to get that nailed down and written up on day one so the project has meaning and direction, and more importantly a baseline to refer back to when it comes to review time to gauge whether or not the project has been successful.

Primary drivers include things such as:

  • Cost reduction – operating expenditure...

Unlock full access

Continue reading for free

A Packt free trial gives you instant online access to our library of over 7000 practical eBooks and videos, constantly updated with the latest in tech

Create a Note

Modal Close icon
You need to login to use this feature.
notes
bookmark search playlist font-size

Change the font size

margin-width

Change margin width

day-mode

Change background colour

Close icon Search
Country selected

Close icon Your notes and bookmarks

Delete Bookmark

Modal Close icon
Are you sure you want to delete it?
Cancel
Yes, Delete

Delete Note

Modal Close icon
Are you sure you want to delete it?
Cancel
Yes, Delete

Edit Note

Modal Close icon
Write a note (max 255 characters)
Cancel
Update Note

Confirmation

Modal Close icon
claim successful

Buy this book with your credits?

Modal Close icon
Are you sure you want to buy this book with one of your credits?
Close
YES, BUY