Book description
Deliver applications to virtual desktop environments in seconds and at scale with the click of a button
About This Book
- Learn how can you deliver a great user experience and drive down storage and management costs
- Discover hidden gems to deliver applications to virtual desktop environments in seconds
- This book will help you fully utilize the true potential of VMware App Volumes and design and build a complete production environment
Who This Book Is For
This book is for administrators and IT teams who would like to take full advantage of App Volumes to deal with application workloads. It will also be useful for virtualization professionals and teams who are working on VDI deployments and VMware end user computing solutions.
What You Will Learn
- Find out how the VMware App Volumes solution can enhance the management and delivery of applications in your desktop environment
- Design a real-life App Volumes solution using best practices and following the recommended sizing guides
- Install, configure, and deploy App Volumes so it is ready to start delivering applications
- Create and prepare applications ready to be delivered to end users
- Discover how App Volumes can enhance other desktop solutions by looking at how it integrates with VMware Horizon View, VMware ThinApp, RDSH, and Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp
- Understand how to configure the advanced options within App Volumes
In Detail
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.
Style and approach
This book comprises of the theoretical explanations that will help you perform a complete App Volumes deployment through step-by-step instructions
Table of contents
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Learning VMware App Volumes
- Table of Contents
- Learning VMware App Volumes
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to App Volumes
- 2. Architectural and Feature Overview
- 3. Designing and Building an App Volumes Deployment
- 4. Installing and Configuring the App Volumes Software
- 5. A Guided Tour of the Management Console
- 6. Working with AppStacks
- 7. Working with Writable Volumes
- 8. Delivering ThinApp Packages with App Volumes
- 9. Horizon View Integration
- 10. Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenDesktop Environment
- 11. Deploying App Volumes in a RemoteApp Environment
- 12. Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenApp Environment
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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
- 14. Advanced Configuration and Other Options
- Index
Product information
- Title: Learning VMware App Volumes
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2016
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781785884382
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