VMware App Volumes Provides Faster Application Delivery and Simplified Management
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App Volumes Blog
App Volumes simplifies app management and delivers innovations in lifecycle management. Learn more about App Volumes in the blog.
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What Does App Volumes Do?
Agile Services Delivery
Leverage VMware’s Instant Clones, App Volumes, and Dynamic Environment Manager to simplify management of the operating system, applications, and user personalization. By doing so, all the component pieces together can be reconstituted on-demand to deliver Just-in-Time desktops and apps across any infrastructure topologies – delivered to any device.
Simplified Application and User Management
Provide application and user management across virtual desktop and RDSH/ published application environments powered by VMware Horizon, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. Supports enterprise-scale capabilities such as streamlined updates and assignments, quick and easy rollbacks and application lifecycle management.
Dramatically Lowers IT Costs
Supports a truly stateless desktop with no trade-off between user experience and costs. Delivers zero-downtime updates, and one-to-many provisioning lowers storage and operational costs.
Enables Reliability Through a Modern Architecture
Provision applications faster, deliver context-aware user policy and isolate apps as needed for a personalized, reliable and consistent user experience. Apps on Demand from App Volumes makes app delivery faster, app and image management more efficient, and helps with app modernization.
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VMware App Volumes
The Lowest Capital and Operational Costs for Application Delivery and Management
"VMware App Volumes is actually one of the cooler technologies we employ here at the hospital. We are able to separate the OS image from the application images. If there is a change in any application, you can make that change and present it to the user exactly when they want it. Even if only one person wants it, it allows us to install that application and use App Volumes to present that application to just that user, and make them happy. From an IT perspective, we want to say yes more than no. App Volumes makes it possible for us to say yes.”
Austin Park, Principal Consultant, LCMC Health
Benefits
Powerful Application and User Management
App Volumes makes it easy to deliver, update, assign, and manage the lifecycle of applications and users across virtual desktop (VDI) and published application environments. Context-aware user policy and profile management provides secure and personalized access to desktops and apps.
Transform and Modernize Apps with Apps on Demand
App Volumes helps IT to move their legacy apps to the cloud with 99% app compatibility. For example, file types such as EXE, MSI, ZIP, JAR and virtualization formats like ThinApp and MSIX app attach are supported. All of this with no re-coding requirement. App Volumes helps with app lifecycle management from updates, patching to redeploying apps across different VDI, DaaS, and app environments such as VMware Horizon, Citrix, and Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop with Windows 10 multi-session.
Lower IT Costs without Impacting Users
App Volumes delivers a customizable and persistent user experience across desktop sessions, reducing management costs by efficiently delivering applications from one virtual disk to many desktops or published application servers.
Support a truly stateless desktop with no trade-off between user experience and costs. Manage applications in volumes, reducing storage capacity requirements by 70% without impacting network and compute resources and decouple operating system images and applications to help reduce the number of images being managed by up to 95%.
Ready for the cloud
Application delivery and user management services are built on an extensible platform for cloud-based technologies. Included are out-of-the-box integrated services such as application delivery, user management and monitoring for cloud-based environments.
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Each App Volumes edition is available in two license models:
- Per Named User: For virtual environments with staff that need dedicated access to a virtual machine throughout the day.
- Per Concurrent Connection: For virtual environments with a high number of shift workers where machines are shared between workers throughout the day (e.g. students, shift workers).
Choose Your Edition
Edition Name |
Description |
| Horizon Apps Universal Subscription | App delivery with a full suite of cloud management services and automation for hybrid cloud deployment. This license includes App Volumes entitlement. |
| Horizon Enterprise Plus Subscription | Desktop and application delivery with a suite of cloud management services and automation for on-premises or cloud deployment. This license includes App Volumes entitlement. |
| Horizon Universal License Subscription | Desktop and application delivery with a full suite of cloud management services and automation for hybrid and multi-cloud deployment. This license includes App Volumes entitlement. |
Getting Started
Get started with real-time application delivery and user management in your desktop (VDI) and published application deployment with App Volumes.
Running Horizon?
App Volumes is included in VMware Apps Universal Subscription, VMware Enterprise Plus Subscription, and VMware Horizon Universal Subscription licenses. Upgrade to any of these to realize the benefits of the next generation of desktop and application delivery platform.
Running Citrix?
Optimize your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment with VMware Apps Universal Subscription, VMware Enterprise Plus Subscription, and VMware Horizon Universal Subscription licenses. Built to enable real-time application delivery, application isolation, user management, VMware App Volumes is a complete solution that enhances your investment in XenApp and XenDesktop.
Running RDSH?
Enhance your RDSH environment with VMware Apps Universal Subscription, VMware Enterprise Plus Subscription, and VMware Horizon Universal Subscription licenses, enabling real-time application delivery, application isolation and user management that takes your environment to the next level.
Resources
Learn & Evaluate
- App Volumes Datasheet
- App Volumes FAQ
- Infographic: Achieve Big Savings with App Volumes
- Optimizing Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop using App Volumes, NSX and vSAN - Solution Brief
- Customer Case Study: German Utilities Company Embraced Secure Profile Management
- Customer Story: BDP International leverages App Volumes to deploy apps in minutes
- Customer Video: Cloudalize - Delivering Applications in Real-Time
- ROI Calculator
- Take your Citrix Environment to the Next Level
- Optimize your Environment with App Volumes
- Reviewer's Guide for VMware App Volumes