AppVolume 2.13 Overview
App Volumes is VMware industry-leading application and user management solutions for Horizon, Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, and RDSH virtual environmentsVMware App Volumes provides a system to deliver applications to desktops through virtual disks. Applications are bundled in AppStacks and delivered by attaching a standard VMDK file to a virtual machine. You can centrally manage the applications with the App Volumes Manager and there is no need to modify the desktops or individual applications. Applications that are delivered by using App Volumes look and feel natively installed and you can update or replace the applications in real time
All applications are provisioned during login time and App Volumes enables users to have a persistent user experience wherein users can install their own applications and have them persist across sessions.
New Features :
- Support for concurrent AppStack assignment
You can assign AppStacks to computers and users concurrently which results in improved login times. The AppStack is attached to the user when the user logs in and the computer-based AppStack is attached when the computer starts up. - AppStack attachmentemt limit
You can limit the number of active attachments of an AppStack and configure each AppStack with the maximum number of concurrent assignments that you want to allow.
This feature will be help to utilize the correct license of App volume in matter of concurrent assignments and also in matter of the application in the app stack and not to exceed the allowed license
To enable it simply edit the app stack and add the number of
- Troubleshooting archives
You can use App Volumes Manager to create archives of server logs and configuration files and download these files for troubleshooting App Volumes. - Important enhancements to secure connection to Active Directory
You can choose to connect securely from App Volumes Manager to an Active Directory using a CA root certificate, using either LDAPs (default) or LDAP over TLS. - App Volumes Manager supports SQL Server 2016 and Microsoft Windows Server 2016. App Volumes agent supports Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (RDSH)
- Also the updates resolve a variety of issues ranging from functional issues to security vulnerabilities.