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You will notice the system requirements for the App-V Sequencer and Client are very similar to a typical end-user workstation.

➤ App-V Sequencer Requirements
o Processor—IntelW PentiumW III, 850 MHz or faster. The sequencing process is a single-threaded process; it does not take advantage of dual processors.

o Memory—256 MB RAM or greater. A 500 MB page file is recommended.

o Hard drive—Two physical drives, 20-GB minimum each. (Install the operating system and local applications on one drive, and use the second drive as the target for your virtual applications.) It is recommended your disk drives should be at least three times as large as the largest application you will sequence. If you have only one hard drive, you must use at least two NTFS volumes to partition it.

o Operating system (this must be the same as the clients)—The Sequencer runs on the following operating systems:
- Windows XP Professional (SP2 or SP3)
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Vista
- Windows Server 2008 with Terminal Services
- Windows 7


App-V Client requirements
Now we will discuss two App-V client requirements: App-V Desktop Client and App-V Terminal Services Client.


App-V Desktop Client
» Processor—See recommended system requirements for the operating system you are using.
» RAM—See recommended system requirements for the operating system you are using.
» Disk—30 MB for installation and 4096 MB for cache.
» Windows XP Professional (SP2 or SP3) 32-bit
» Windows Vista RTM/SP1 (Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate) 32-bit
» Windows 7

The following software prerequisites are installed automatically if the setup.exe method is used. For setup.msi install program, these must be installed first. Microsoft recommends using setup.exe.

» Microsoft Visual Cþþ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (_86)—For more information about installing Microsoft Visual Cþþ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (_86), see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId¼119961.


» Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 SP1 (_86)—For more information about installing Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 SP1 (_86), see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId¼63266.

» Microsoft Application Error Reporting—The install program for this
software is included in the Support\Watson folder in the self-extracting
archive file.


App-V Terminal Services Client
» Processor—See recommended system requirements for the operating system you are using
» RAM—See recommended system requirements for the operating system you are using (also depends on the number of users and applications)
» Disk—30 MB for installation and 2 GB for cache
» Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter, SP1 or later) 32-bit
» Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter) 32-bit
» Windows 7

Source of Information : Elsevier-Microsoft Virtualization Master Microsoft Server Desktop Application and Presentation