Learning VMware App Volumes电子书

Learning VMware App Volumes

Table of Contents

Learning VMware App Volumes

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

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Why subscribe?

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introduction to App Volumes

What is App Volumes?

How does it work?

Why do you need App Volumes?

A comparison between App Volumes, Mirage, ThinApp, and RDSH

App Volumes use cases

VDI desktops

RDSH-delivered applications

Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp environments

Project A2

How to license App Volumes

How does this book work?

Introducing the Example Lab

What you will need for the lab

Summary

2. Architectural and Feature Overview

App Volumes components

App Volumes Manager

App Volumes Agents

AppStacks

Writable Volumes

The provisioning virtual machine

Storage groups

The App Volumes architecture

Network ports

Summary

3. Designing and Building an App Volumes Deployment

Phase I – Project definition

Identifying business drivers

Building the business case

Assessment

Defining the success criteria

Phase II – Proving the technology

Proof of concept

Proof of technology

Pilot

Design

Deploy

Test

Review

Phase III - Design and Deploy

App Volumes Manager deployment best practice

AppStack design considerations

AppStack logical grouping

AppStack deployment best practice

How many AppStacks per VM can I have?

Application provisioning best practice

VMware Horizon View integration with pod and block design

Storage considerations

AppStack storage capacity considerations

Writable Volumes storage capacity considerations

Scalability

Availability

Performance

Summary

4. Installing and Configuring the App Volumes Software

Prerequisites

App Volumes requirements

System/hardware requirements

Software requirements

Downloading the App Volumes software

Installing the software

Installing App Volumes Manager

Initial configuration tasks

Installing App Volumes Agent

Summary

5. A Guided Tour of the Management Console

Logging in to the management console

The DASHBOARD page

The VOLUMES menu

AppStacks

Writables

Attachments

Assignments

Applications

The DIRECTORY menu

Online

Users

Computers

Groups

OUs

The INFRASTRUCTURE menu

Machines

Storage

Storage Groups

The ACTIVITY menu

Pending Actions

Activity Log

System Messages

The CONFIGURATION menu

License

Active Directory

Administrators

Machine Managers

Storage

Summary

6. Working with AppStacks

Creating your first AppStack

Creating an AppStack for Microsoft Office

Creating an AppStack for Microsoft Visio

Creating an AppStack for Evernote and VLC Media Player

Creating an AppStack for Adobe Reader

Creating an AppStack for OpenOffice

Assigning and delivering AppStacks to end users

Assigning the Visio and Adobe Reader AppStacks

Testing AppStack assignments

AppStack delivery process

Agent start up process

Agent shutdown process

Agent login process

Agent logout process

Managing AppStacks

Editing AppStacks

Updating AppStacks

Deleting AppStacks

Unassigning AppStacks

Importing AppStacks

Rescanning AppStacks

Backing up AppStacks

Summary

7. Working with Writable Volumes

Creating Writable Volumes

Creating your first Writable Volume

Managing Writable Volumes

Importing Writable Volumes

Updating Writable Volumes

Rescanning Writable Volumes

Editing a Writable Volume

Disabling a Writable Volume

Deleting a Writable Volume

Backing up AppStacks

Summary

8. Delivering ThinApp Packages with App Volumes

What is ThinApp?

What is application virtualization?

Understanding ThinApp application virtualization

Why is this different from App Volumes?

Creating a new ThinApp

Running Setup Capture

Creating the ThinApp AppStack

Assigning the new ThinApp AppStack

Updating existing ThinApp packages

Updating the ThinApp Package to .msi

Creating an AppStack for the updated .msi package

Using THINREG.exe to mass-deploy packages

Creating the ThinApp AppStack

Assigning the Audacity ThinApp packages AppStack

Summary

9. Horizon View Integration

Building and configuring a virtual desktop

Creating and configuring a desktop pool

Entitling desktops

Logging on to a View desktop

Summary

10. Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenDesktop Environment

Building and configuring a virtual desktop

Creating a machine catalog

Creating a delivery group

Logging on to a XenDesktop virtual desktop

Summary

11. Deploying App Volumes in a RemoteApp Environment

Building and configuring an AppStack for RemoteApp delivery

Installing the RDSH role on the provisioning machine

Installing App Volumes Agent

Provisioning the RDSH AppStack

Starting the provisioning process

Installing applications

Assigning the AppStack to the RDSH server

Configuring applications for publishing

Launching AppStack-based published applications

Summary

12. Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenApp Environment

Building and configuring an AppStack for XenApp

Installing the RDSH role on the provisioning machine

Installing the App Volumes Agent

Provisioning the RDSH AppStack

Starting the provisioning process

Installing applications

Installing the Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent

Installing the App Volumes Agent

Assigning the AppStack to the XenApp RDSH Server

Creating a machine catalog

Creating a Delivery Group

Launching AppStack-based XenApp applications

Summary

13. Deploying App Volumes in a Horizon View Hosted Apps Environment

Building and configuring an AppStack for Horizon View hosted applications

Installing the RDSH role on the provisioning machine

Installing the App Volumes Agent

Provisioning the RDSH AppStack

Starting the provisioning process

Installing applications

Installing the Horizon View Agent

Installing the App Volumes Agent

Assigning the AppStack to the RDSH server

Configuring applications for publishing

Configuring a Horizon View application Farm

Configuring a Horizon View application pool

Launching AppStack-based Horizon View hosted apps

Summary

14. Advanced Configuration and Other Options

Customizing AppStack templates

Creating new virtual hard disk

Initializing and formatting the new hard disk

Attaching the existing virtual hard disk template

Copying existing template files

Copying new template to App Volumes datastore

Renaming new template

Importing the new template

Customizing Writable Volumes

Creating and working with Storage Groups

Advanced Agent configuration

Working with batch script files

Advanced configuration parameters

SVdriver configuration parameters

DriveLetterSettings

SVservice configuration parameters

Volume behavior parameters

General behavior parameters

Using VHD In-Guest operation mode

Upgrading to a new version of App Volumes

Upgrading the App Volumes Manager

Upgrading the App Volumes Agent

Summary

Index