What Is App Volumes? A different way of doing things With Omnissa App Volumes, we’re changing the application delivery process. Traditionally, you would install all of your applications into a base operating system. That would also include customizations for user profiles, app settings, and so on. When you needed to change or update the OS down the line, you had to consider all the applications embedded in it. And likewise, when you wanted to update an application, the changes had a ripple effect across the OS it was embedded in. Problems included: Maintaining and updating large numbers of applications Having to create multiple images to manage everything Handling desktop pool sprawl for all the different use cases Providing consistent, highly personalized desktops, applications, and suer settings App Volumes solves the traditional application delivery problems by doing things in a different way: delivering applications through virtual disks. Instead of installing applications on a golden image (which can cause sprawl), or on individual desktops (which is costly and time-consuming), you install it once. You capture that in an image, and apply the image to hundreds and hundreds of desktops. That means you can update it once, and roll the updates out to all end users. And you can end-of-life it once, in the same way. Figure 1: Real-time app delivery and simplified app lifecycle management App Volumes attaches containers called packages with applications to your virtual machine, and those applications are displayed live to the end user. Applications are delivered by attaching a standard Virtual Machine Disk File (VMDK) or Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file to a virtual machine. You can centrally manage the applications, and there’s no need to modify the desktops or individual applications. All Application Programs are packaged as fully installed, and delivered in real-time to the user's session. A key benefit is that to end users, the applications that App Volumes delivers look and feel like natively installed applications. ©️ Omnissa LLC. Document | 4