VMware App Volumes Manager installation

After understanding the system and database requirements of VMware App Volumes Manager, today we will focus on the installation of App Volumes Manager. In this introduction environment, we uniformly use the Windows 2012R2 Datacenter version, and App Volumes Manager needs to join the AD environment in advance. First of all, we need to download the installation media from the VMware website. Next we will mainly introduce the installation configuration.

First of all, we mount the installation media locally and find the following path installation\ Manager\ en_sql_server2014_express_edition_with_service_pack_2_x64, right-click, extract the file, open the wizard to install the database, and select a new installation.

Agree to the license agreement

Keep the default next step on the Microsoft Update page

Select installation feature

Configure instance name and ID

Set the server startup mode. Default is next.

Set up database administrator and authentication mode

Enter the installation and wait

Complete the database installation configuration.

Run as an administrator as follows

Enter VMware App Volumes installation initialization

Agree to the license agreement

Select the type of installation, App Volumes Manager

Enter Appvolumes initialization

Select a database

Select network protocol and configure port

Set up the installation directory

Prepare for installation

wait for

Complete the installation.

The following section will explain in detail the configuration of App Volumes Manager.