Infrastructure and networking requirements for App Volumes include requirements for App Volumes Manager, agent, and Active Directory.

Table 1. Infrastructure Requirements
Component Details
App Volumes Manager
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and Datacenter editions
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019, 2016
  • .NET 3.5 framework
  • 4 vCPU required
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 1 GB disk space
App Volumes Agent (client OS)
  • Microsoft Windows 10, version 20H2 Enterprise and Pro
  • Microsoft Windows 10, version 2004 Enterprise and Pro
  • Windows Server 2012 R2, and 2016 for Server VDI
  • Microsoft Windows 10 1909
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019
  • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 Professional and Enterprise editions (Microsoft Hot fix 3033929 applied)
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1 Professional and Enterprise
  • Microsoft Windows 10 1903
  • Microsoft Windows 10, version 1809 SAC and LTSC
  • Microsoft Windows 10, version 1803
  • Microsoft Windows 10, version 1709
  • Microsoft Windows 10, version 1703, also known as Creators Update
  • Microsoft Windows 10, Build 1607 Current Branch & LTSB
  • Microsoft Windows 10, Build 1607 Current Branch for Business
  • Windows 10 Anniversary edition, Version 1607
  • Both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of OS are supported
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 1 vCPU
  • 5 MB disk space
App Volumes Agent (RDSH)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and Datacenter editions with RDSH role enabled
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016 with 2K16
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019
  • 1 vCPU
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 5 MB disk space
VMware software for VMDK Direct Attached Mode (Preferred)
  • VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.x and vCenter Server (ESXi and vCenter Server must be the same version)
  • VMware Virtual SAN 6.2
  • VMware Horizon with View 6.0.1 or later
  • Citrix XenDesktop 5.5, 5.6, and 7.x
  • Citrix XenApp 6.5 and 7.x
  • ESXi 5.5 U3b or 6.0 U1 required for vMotion support (Storage vMotion is not supported)
SMB file share if using VHD mode
  • SMB 2.0
  • SMB version 3.02 (Windows Server 2012 R2) is recommended for a better performance
Active Directory Microsoft Active Directory domain, 2003 functional level or later. Read-only account access.
Table 2. Networking Requirements
Component Purpose Port number
App Volumes Manager Agent and Manager communications
  • TCP 80 (HTTP)
  • TCP 443 (HTTPS)
  • TCP 5985 for PowerShell Web services
App Volumes SQL Database Database communication TCP 1433 (SQL)