VMware App Volumes Provides Faster Application Delivery and Simplified Management
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What Does App Volumes Do?
Agile Services Delivery
By leveraging VMware’s Instant Clones, App Volumes, and User Environment Management, JMP untangles 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.
Spotlight
Use App Volumes to Grow Services and Save Costs
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Enterprise Strategy Group Solution Spotlight
App Volumes enhancements help accelerate application delivery.
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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.
Building block for JMP
JMP (pronounced jump) is the next-generation desktop and application delivery platform included in VMware Horizon Enterprise. JMP leverages Instant Clones, App Volumes, and User Environment Management technologies to untangle 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.
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 |
App Volumes Standard | An application and user management solution with virtual environments powered by VMware Horizon, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, and RDSH |
App Volumes Advanced | An advanced application and user management solution for enterprise customers with virtual environments powered by VMware Horizon, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, and RDSH. Features See All |
Features
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App Volumes Standard |
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Real-time application delivery |
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User profile and policy management |
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Cloud-ready platform |
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Application packaging and virtualization |
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Application inventory meta data |
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AppIsolation – Agentless application |
Supported Environments
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User profile and policy management |
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Cloud-ready platform |
Getting Started
Running Horizon?
App Volumes is included only in VMware Horizon Enterprise. Upgrade to Horizon Enterprise to realize the benefits of JMP - the next-generation of desktop and application delivery platform. Already have Horizon Enterprise? Upgrade to version 7 and experience JMP today.
Running Citrix?
Optimize your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment with VMware App Volumes Advanced. Built to enable real-time application delivery, application isolation, user management, App Volumes Advanced is a complete solution that enhances your investment in XenApp and XenDesktop.
Running RDSH?
Enhance your RDSH environment with VMware App Volumes Advanced, 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
- Principled Technologies Hands-on Testing Report: Deploying Apps Faster and Cutting Costs in Citrix XenDesktop with App Volumes
- 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
- App Volumes for Financial Services
- App Volumes for Healthcare
- ROI Calculator
- A Definitive Guide to Windows 10 Management a VMware
- Take your Citrix Environment to the Next Level
- Optimize your Environment with App Volumes
- Reviewer's Guide for VMware App Volumes