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Learning VMware App Volumes
Learning VMware App Volumes

Learning VMware App Volumes: Deliver applications to virtual desktop environments in seconds and at scale with the click of a button

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Learning VMware App Volumes

Chapter 2. Architectural and Feature Overview

In this chapter, we will start to look a little deeper into the different components that make up an App Volumes solution. Then, once you are familiar with these different components, we will discuss how they fit and work together.

App Volumes components

We will start by covering an overview of the different core components that make up the complete App Volumes solution—a glossary, if you like. These are either components of the actual App Volumes solution or additional components that are required to build your complete environment.

App Volumes Manager

App Volumes Manager is the heart of the solution. Installed on the Windows Server operating system, App Volumes Manager controls the application-delivery engine and provides you with access to a web-based dashboard and console from which you can manage your entire App Volumes environment.

You will get your first glimpse of App Volumes Manager in Chapter 4, Installing and Configuring the App Volumes Software, when you complete the installation and start the post-installation tasks, where you will configure details for your virtual host servers, storage, Active Directory, and other environment variables.

Once you have completed the installation tasks, you will use...

The App Volumes architecture

Now that you understand what each of the individual components is used for, the next step is to look at how they all fit together to form the complete solution.

We are going to break the architecture down into three parts. The first part will be focused on the application-delivery and virtual desktop machines from an end user's perspective.

In the second part, we will look more closely at the supporting and underlying infrastructure, that is, from an IT administrator's point of view.

Finally, in the infrastructure section, we will look at the infrastructure with a networking hat on and illustrate the various network ports we will require to be available to us.

So let's go back and look at our first part: what the end user will see.

In this example, we have a virtual desktop machine running Windows as the starting point of our solution. Onto that virtual desktop machine, we have installed an App Volumes Agent.

We also have some core applications already...

Network ports

In this section, we are going to cover the firewall ports that are required to be open in order for the App Volumes components to communicate with the other infrastructure components.

The following diagram shows the port numbers (highlighted in boxes) that are required to be open for each component to communicate:

Network ports

It's worth ensuring that these ports are configured before you start the deployment of App Volumes.

Summary

In this chapter, you were introduced to the individual components that make up an App Volumes solution and what task each of them performs. We then went on to look at how those components fit into the overall solution architecture as well as how the architecture works.

In the next chapter, we will start discussing how to design an App Volumes solution, what to look out for when dealing with applications, and how to generally approach a project such as this.

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  • 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

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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.

Who is this book 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
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Table of Contents

15 Chapters
1. Introduction to App Volumes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Architectural and Feature Overview Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Designing and Building an App Volumes Deployment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Installing and Configuring the App Volumes Software Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. A Guided Tour of the Management Console Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Working with AppStacks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Working with Writable Volumes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Delivering ThinApp Packages with App Volumes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Horizon View Integration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenDesktop Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Deploying App Volumes in a RemoteApp Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenApp Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
13. Deploying App Volumes in a Horizon View Hosted Apps Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
14. Advanced Configuration and Other Options Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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I'm currently engaged in a consulting engagement with a large French-German corporation that is implementing App Volumes together with VMware's Horizon View 7. Peter's book proves an invaluable aide in this project. His book is not only covering App Volumes in-depth per se, but also describes in detail how to integrate App Volumes not only with VMware's own VDI environment, Horizon View, but also with Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and Microsoft RDSH environments. Highly recommended for anyone dealing with AppVolumes!
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