App Volumes provide a virtualized, real-time application delivery engine for the virtual desktop infrastructure and is designed to enable VDI deployments to ensure greater flexibility, agility, and cost-reduction.
This video starts with an overview of the architecture and components used to design an optimized solution. You will then learn how to install and configure App Volumes for different use cases such as VMware View Integration, using VMware Thin App, Citrix Xen App, and more. Throughout the course, we provide hints, tips, and tricks as well as best practices. By the end of the video, you will have built a working App Volumes environment and acquired the skills to build and run a production environment.
About the Author
Peter von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the past 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners in designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. During his career, Peter has been involved in numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments and has presented at key IT events, such as VMworld, IP EXPO, and various VMUGs and CCUG events across the UK. He has also worked in senior presales roles and presales management roles for some IT giants—such as Fujitsu, HP, Citrix, and VMware—and was awarded VMware vExpert for 2015 and 2016. Over the past 12 years and more, Peter has focused his skills and experience by specializing in the desktop and application virtualization market and today works as the UK&I, Benelux, and Nordics Pre-Sales Director for the market-leading desktop transformation specialists, Liquidware Labs.
Peter got his first taste for writing when assisting with some of the chapters in the book Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, which then led to six other Packt titles: VMware Horizon Mirage Essentials; VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials, co-written with Peter Bjork and Joel Lindberg; VMware Horizon View Essentials; Mastering VMware Horizon 6, co-written with Barry Coombs; Learning VMware App Volumes; and Mastering VMware Horizon 7 Second Edition.
