App Volumes Deep Dive—vmware.pptxVIP

VMware App VolumesDeep Dive Senior EUC Specialist Aaron Wang 王 宇 Managed Application Containers Settings Data / Files Applications App Volumes Agent Traditional Just-in-Time App Model OS OS AppStack AppStack Writable Volume 2 App Volumes Components APP VOLUMES MANAGER APP VOLUMES AGENT APPSTACK Dashboard console for assignments and configuration App Volume agent brokering Assignment of applications and writable volumes Redirects file system and registry write operations to writable volume (if required) Checks-in with App Volumes Manager Read-only volume containing applications One AppStack : Multiple Users Policy-Driven Virtualization WRITABLE VOLUME One writable volume : One user Policy-Driven application virtualization PROVISIONING VM Clean Windows virtual machine with App Volumes Agent Snapshots used for rollback Provision / update applications to AppStack 3 App Volumes: Requirements 4 App Volumes Mgmt Server Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 2012 R2 Microsoft Active Directory Domain – 2003 functinoality or above Supported Browser – Access Mgmt Console IE 9, 10 Firefox 10, 11 Safari 5.1x App Volumes Agent Windows 7 or above Software Requirements Server Hypervisor: ESX/Virtual Center 5.x or later 2 vCPUs Minimum / 4 vCPUs Recommended 4GB of RAM 1GB of Disk Space SQL Server 2008 R2 or 2012 Agent Windows 7 and 8.1 1GB of RAM 5MB of Disk Space System Requirements App Volumes Pre-Requisites Database SQL Express 2008 r2 supported for Testing/non-production SQL 2008 r2 or 2012 standard and above for production Active Directory users Account with standard permission for initial setup/connection Administrator level account for AppStack VM Provisioning End-users administrator privileges required to install applications into their writable volumes (UIA). Agent/Manager communication on port 80/443 Provisioning Applications into a Single AppStack Provisioning VM Application Installation C:\ Perform installations on the provisioning virtual machine The App Volumes