Prerequisites

Before you start the App Volumes installation, you need to have the following in place:

• An Active Directory account that has read access to the base DN so that App Volumes Manager can query Active Directory users and groups.
• An Active Directory user accounts with the following permissions:
  • Standard permissions for setup/connection
  • Administrator-level access to allow the installation of applications into Writable Volumes
• A vCenter administrator account that has administration permissions at the data center level.
• Local or remote access to a SQL database. In a production environment, the recommendation would be for a remote database with enterprise-class availability, but for a pilot or POC environment, you can use SQL Express. It is included as a part of the App Volumes software download package. App Volumes supports the following versions:
  • SQL Express 2008 R2
  • SQL 2008 R2 or 2012 (Standard or Enterprise Edition)
• In case a firewall is used between system components, ports 80/443 should be opened.
• If you deploy multiple App Volumes Manager instances, then a load balancer should be used to distribute the traffic between the managers.