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Learning VMware App Volumes

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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785884382

Length 494 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

App Volumes

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Peter von Oven

Peter V Oven

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Learning VMware App Volumes

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Introduction to App Volumes FREE CHAPTER

2. Architectural and Feature Overview

3. Designing and Building an App Volumes Deployment

4. Installing and Configuring the App Volumes Software

5. A Guided Tour of the Management Console

6. Working with AppStacks

7. Working with Writable Volumes

8. Delivering ThinApp Packages with App Volumes

9. Horizon View Integration

10. Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenDesktop Environment

11. Deploying App Volumes in a RemoteApp Environment

12. Deploying App Volumes in a Citrix XenApp Environment

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

14. Advanced Configuration and Other Options

Index

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

In the last three chapters, we have looked in detail at how to build and configure Microsoft and Citrix environments, both for published applications and virtual desktop environments, to take advantage of the App Volumes technology in delivering just-in-time applications.

This penultimate chapter is going to focus back on VMware technology and look at how you build and configure a Horizon View environment designed to deliver hosted applications to end users with the applications being configured as AppStacks and delivered by Horizon View.

The Horizon View hosted applications solution is not too dissimilar to the Microsoft or Citrix environments for published applications that we have covered previously, as it uses the Microsoft RDSH as its foundation. Horizon View then provides the connection broker elements, the same broker that is used to broker Horizon View virtual desktop machines, to connect end users to published...

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Authors (2)

Peter von Oven

Peter von Oven

Peter von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the past 25 years working with customers and partners designing technology solutions. During his career, Peter has presented at key IT events, such as VMworld, IP EXPO, and various VMUGs and CCUG events. He has also worked in senior presales roles and presales management roles for Fujitsu, HP, Citrix, and VMware, and has been awarded VMware vExpert four years running. In 2016, Peter founded his own company, Droplet Computing, where he works today as the Founder and Chief Technology Officer.Peter got his first taste for writing when assisting with some of the chapters in Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, which then lead to five other Packt titles.

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