(app volumes series IV) app management with app volumes

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This blog is the last in this series of app Volumes blogs, and in this blog I'll tell the reader how to use the app Volumes Manage applications and personalize applications and content.

first, let's talk . Appstack extraction process, this extraction process can only be done by the domain administrator. In general, the extraction process is a manager-side boot, the agent-side machine for normal application installation, the two sides to complete the extraction process.

First, the domain administrator login to the app Volumes manager management interface, and then select Volumes->appstacks, click Create Appstack to start the process of initiating the extraction.


Figure One Create Appstack

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The domain Administrator then needs to set a name for the Appstack, for example, the administrator needs to create an app collection for all employees in the marketing department named ' marketing apps '


Figure II named Appstack

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To create this appstack, this step is just to create a appstack shell. Administrator to the Appstack page to find the ' marketing application ' This appstack, the administrator next need to specify on which virtual machine to install the application to complete the application extraction steps, the administrator can follow the system prompts step by step to complete the following steps, where I do not expand the introduction.


Figure Three Start extraction

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It should be explained that the machine designated for extracting Appstack must have the agent software of the app volumes installed, and there is no appstack or writable volumes on this machine. In general, this machine is preferably a new environment, and each time an administrator extracts the application, the best practice is to restore the snapshot of the previous VM to a completely new environment that only installs the agent software.


When the administrator has specified the target VM for the installation of the app, themanager of the app volumes is waiting, and the administrator needs to log on to the agent target VM system and see the prompt like this


Figure Four Agent machine system tips

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The administrator can then perform the normal installation of the Windows application on this machine, as shown in Figure four, only if you have installed all the applications, you can click on the OK button. After the system restarts, the steps on the machine where the agent is located are completed. Go back to the manager of the APP volumes and complete the Appstack installation.


Everything is so simple, get ready to use this appstack.

Select the ' marketing app ' that you just created on the manager of APP volumes , and prepare to start specifying goals.

Figure v Start Application assignment

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Appstack can be assigned to an object that can be either a machine or a user, or it can be a machine group or a group of users. After the administrator has selected an object in the domain, the system asks whether it will take effect immediately or the next time it is logged in or restarted, and the administrator chooses it according to the actual needs.

Figure six selecting a target

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Appstack can help administrators quickly distribute, update or remove applications from multiple systems or users, freeing administrators from repetitive tasks and improving departmental productivity. However, the Appstack application is created by the administrator and is read-only to the average user. What if users need to install their own personalized apps or have their own personalized computer configuration? This requires the configuration of writable volumes.

Create Writable Volumes step relative appstack is simpler, to app volumes manager on the Select writable volumes click ' Create writable Volumes '

Figure 7 Creating the writable Volumes

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Next choose writable volumes target, like Appstack, select the domain inside the computer or user, click ' Create ',writable volumes is created.

Then the user is normal use of the system, the user will be pleasantly surprised to find that I installed an application on a system such as notepad++, I am next login to the B system, I can see this application notepad++.

Writable volumes is simply a user or machine personality packet. As soon as the user creates a writable volumes, any subsequent changes to the system, such as installing the app, changing the desktop wallpaper, etc., will be recorded in the writable volumes.


If you want to have further intuitive feeling, you can look at this video on Youku VMware Horizon app volumes feel the power of the app volumes.


So far, the series of blogs about Appvolumes is over, and hopefully this series of blogs will help readers understand that VMware will soon be releasing the main features of Appvolumes to help readers with their work.



About the SAM Zhao,euc solution manager. He has 13 years of it experience in software development, testing, project management, three patents and co-authored books.

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