VMware Horizon Application Manager

In this document, we'll look at deploying VMware Horizon Application Manager, which is a web portal where we will have two interfaces, one for management and one for our users, where we can present our ThinApp applications. Relying on a SaaS cloud service (Software as a Service) users will be able to open the ThinApp applications they need in a very simple way. Also with the recent version of VMware ThinApp, we will be able to integrate our packages more easily with the Horizon App Manager portal.

ThinApp Factory

From VMware LABs, we will be able to download ThinApp Factory to automate the process of creating ThinApp packages in our environment. ThinApp Factory is nothing more than a Debian virtual appliance that can be deployed on vSphere 4.1 (or higher) which has a Tomcat-based web interface. We will be able to upload installers and then automatically transform them from different MV templates and directly generate the necessary ThinApp packages, which we will then distribute to our users.

Using VMware ThinApp in VMware View 4.6

In this document, we'll look at how to integrate into VMware View 4.6 the applications we can distribute with VMware ThinApp, With this we will be able to achieve a clean distribution of equipment and distribute applications that users need through streaming with all the advantages that the combination of both technologies entails,

Installing and Configuring VMware ThinApp

Introducing a new VMware product, it is called VMware ThinApp and its purpose is to distribute applications to users, Streaming apps, new competitor e.g. Citrix Application Streaming (HERE). What I said, VMware Introduces Product as a Solution for Delivering Applications to Users, so that they can run them without the applications having to be installed on their workstations.