Chapter 6. Scaling Up App-V Implementations

Microsoft Application Virtualization has had important improvements throughout its lifecycle; gaining security, facilitating normal processes for virtualizing and distributing applications, user interface improvements, and scalability, to name a few.

Natively, App-V has some advantages over other platforms when we talk about agility and scalability. Examples of this include MSI deployments to ease up the deployment, Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) for the virtual applications interaction, HTTP/S streaming as an alternative to deploying applications, and so on.

For all those of us in charge of designing solutions for our infrastructure however, we always try to evaluate far more than just how to deploy applications. We want to customize the platform that we are deploying to adhere to the company's policies and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and of course configure it to optimize costs.

It's while using these last few concepts that we start thinking...