VMware App Volumes is an optional component of VMware Horizon Enterprise Edition that extends two additional capabilities to virtual desktops:
- It delivers natively installed applications on demand, independent of the desktop image, using shared App Volumes AppStacks.
- It seamlessly roams user-installed applications between Horizon client sessions, even in non-persistent desktop environments using App Volumes Writable Volumes.
App Volumes uses vSphere VMDK files to enable transparent, on-demand, application portability without making any permanent changes to the virtual desktop. Applications are delivered and maintained using the App Volumes function and appear as if they were natively installed, because technically speaking they were. When used in combination with the software described in Chapter 12, Implementing User Environment Manager, you have the...
