In my previous post we installed the App Volumes Manager. Now it is time for it’s configuration. In this post I will show you the basic configuration to start of with App Volumes.
Before we start make sure you have a Service Account ready for App Volumes. During the configuration, you will need this account to read objects in Active Directory..
Also create a App Volumes Administrators group.
First, open the App Volumes Manager webinterface via the shortcut on the Desktop.
Click Get Started.
On the page you are able to activatie your license. Because this is a simple lab envoirement will stick with the evaluation license for now.
Click Next.
Fill in your Active Directory information. A mentioned at the top of this page you need a service account with read permission on your Active Directory.
In this lab environment I will use LDAP for communication with Active Directory. On a highly secured production environment you may choose LDAPS, if available on your Domain Controllers.
If all the information is correct you will see the Active Directory Domain registered. It is possible to register multiple Active Directories. In some use cases you want to provision App Stacks to multiple domains. For now we just leave it by one.
Now it is time to choose your Administrators group. Users of this group are allow to login to this webinterface and have Administrator rights in App Volumes.
I usually create a Horizon Admins group which are Administrator in the Horizon Administrator and App Volumes.
When the group is selected I will show up in the Administrator Roles overview. You may also add additional groups and roles.
Enter your vCenter hostname and credentials. Read the other options carefully. In this lab I use a single ESXi host with local storage so this settings will be sufficient.
If all information is correct your vCenter will be shown in the list. If needed you may add more vCenter servers.
Choose your datastores and click Next.
Leave the settings default and click Upload.
Change the settings if needed. Otherwise leave it to default and click Finish.
You are all set. You have a basic App Volumes Manager running and you are now ready to start creating App Stacks 🙂
Cheers!
