Chapter 9. Integrating Server App-V with Private Clouds

Organizations are no longer obligated to think about their infrastructure (hardware, roles, services, and other assets) as static; the current market considers businesses as 24 x 7 x 365. Application virtualization appeared in order to provide companies with a way to solve most of the problematic issues that we usually have on the desktop.

The acceleration of virtualized environments in the last few years has also included the necessity to increase agility in the deployment process and the scaling of our business applications and the platforms they run on. Server App-V, integrated with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM 2012 ), appears as one of the principal instruments to accomplish that.

Server App-V allows IT administrators to virtualize typical server software and platforms, applying similar benefits gained from Desktop App-V, such as removing installation and configuration procedures in the deployment of applications...