App Volumes requirements

Now that we have covered the general environment prerequisites for an App Volume installation, the next step is to look at the specific requirements. We will break these into two categories: system requirements and software requirements.

System/hardware requirements

For App Volumes Manager, you will need a virtual machine with the following configuration:

• Hypervisor: ESXi and vCenter Server 5.x or higher
• 2 x vCPUs minimum (4 x vCPUs recommended)
• 4 GB of RAM
• 1 GB of disk space

For the App Volumes client (end user and provisioning/capture machine), you will need the following minimum configuration:

• Microsoft Windows 7 or 8.1
• 1 GB of RAM
• 5 MB of disk space

Software requirements

In addition to the system requirements detailed in the previous subsection, you will also need the following software components for App Volumes Manager:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 2012 R2
• Microsoft Active Directory Domain (2003 functional level or above)
• Supported browsers for the management console:
  • IE 9 and 10
  • Firefox 10 and 11
  • Safari 5.1.x
• For the App Volumes Agent instance used on end users' virtual desktops and the capture and provisioning machine, you will need Microsoft Windows 7 or higher