App Volumes prerequisites

A production installation of App Volumes will require the following items:

• App Volumes appliance Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) file, license file, client agent installers, and AppCapture installer

• Static IP addresses and pre-created DNS entries for each of the App Volumes Manager servers

• A provisioning computer, deployed as a virtual machine, running the same OS as the App Volumes clients; multiple provisioning computers will be required if you use more than one desktop or Windows RDS OS version

• App Volumes Agent supported OSs

  • Windows 7 or newer (for use as a desktop OS)

  • Windows 2008 R2 or newer (for use as an RDS server)

• A local account with the required permissions on each Horizon desktop ESXi host; the App Volumes Manager uses this account to mount VMDK files to desktops

  • The same password must be used on all accounts, and for security purposes it is not recommended to use the ESXi root account

  • An account named appvol will be used in the examples provided.

  • The permissions...