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App Volumes Migration Utility

version 1.0.8 — July 19, 2021
AppStacks
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Release Date: December 06, 2019

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Summary

App Volumes Migration Utility allows admins to migrate AppStacks managed by VMware App Volumes 2.18, to the new application package format of App Volumes 4. The format of these packages in App Volumes 4 have evolved to improve performance and help simplify application management.

Requirements

Administrator permissions are required since the fling operates on the appstacks which are essential for the product.

  • Windows 7 or 10
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
  • Administrative access to VMware App Volumes 2.18 or 4.0
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Version 1.0.8 Update

  • Fixes some customer bugs with respect to application details in the JSON file.

Version 1.0.7 Update

  • Migration fails if their are blacklisted registry entries containing embedded NULL chars.
  • File system migration fails if their are directories having a trailing DOT name ( ex- Microsoft. ).

1.0.6 Version Update

  • Create meta_json.zip in migrated appstacks.

1.0.4 Version Update

  • Fix for the bug 1087

1.0.4 Version Update

  1. Fix for "AppVolumes Manager is invalid" error shown in the UI when connecting to App Volumes Manager 4 version 2006.
  2. Fix for the bug "failed to get old appID from YML entries" in the AppCapture.log during migration of appstacks.

Version 1.0.2 Update

  • Fix for fling bug 983.
  • The customer bug on the fling, exposed an un handled scenario.
  • Prior to migration if the appstacks registry database contained registry keys with embedded NUL
  • (\0) chars in their name, Migration fails.
  • This scenario has now been addressed with this update.

Version 1.0.1

  • Fix for Migrated Appstack upload failure in AVM due to JSON parsing error.
  • Instructions doc updated to reflect the name change from "Upload Prepackaged Volume" to "Upload Template" in the AVM UI.
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