How to run Azure Virtual Desktop on-premises

[@JeffJeske-c7z]

Fantastic content Matt! Good to see the MC nodes in action.

[@Tefty]

So i used to manage VDI deployments on-prem through Citrix and then threw that out the window when RD Gateway came along and saved a lot of money on licensing but its starting to show its age. I look at Azure VDI and think "hmmm interesting..." but i have on-prem beefy servers so dont want to waste money in the cloud when i have the power onsite. Along comes HCI VDI which sounds great, i got a HCI 2 beefy nodes setup on site, link it with Azure, new fancy management, MFA, easy web management etc... but whats the catch... Is this a free service when using on-prem hardware to host it all or is there still some "cloud" catch where i have to pay something?

[@Tefty]

£8 per physical core per month... So for my 2 node cluster which has 2x 16 core Xeon CPU's per host you want 8x32x2 = £512 per month when I am hosting the VM's!?!? I'll stick with SCCM for imaging, software and updates thanks and press the pxe boot button myself... How is this supposed to be cost affective for on-prem VDI hosting... I'm either missing something huge here or this just doesn't seem logical. The whole point of using cloud is to move off on-prem resources, not pay more money with some cloud features on on-prem...

[@rcobsesssed]

I don't believe this solution is aimed at SMB or cost savings, rather it's for enterprise edge cases when a user's desktop needs to be very close to data/databases/etc... or close to users when here's no local Azure datacenter in country etc...

[@DenisKhanykov-m3z]

The video shows A16-4Q profile and it's said that the physical GPU is sliced into 4 partitions. Is it a limitation of the vGPU implementation on ASHCI or just this particular test setup, since A16 can support 16 4Q profiles.

[@MSFTMechanics]

Good question. It's just this particular test configuration for demonstration.

[@aryanbayas]

connectivity between onprem & Azure cloud should be express route only or S2S pvn too works in this Azure HCI scenario.

[@agentsmith3903]

Can you add standalone host or it must be cluster?

[@mattmcspirit7505]

The AzSHCI cluster could be a single-node cluster, absolutely!

[@videofeed99]

I am interested in providing VDIs for my small business, about 9 VDIs. Ideally I would have Azure Stack HCI installed in one of our servers, and then have the VDIs, but I am confused with the Microsoft monthly fees for servers, and processors prices for vdi. I truly wish there is a video to install this on a small business with prices. Otherwise I'll just use proxmox and create VMs in there. Making it all pretty much almost free.

[@karankumarcalasthy6628]

I work for a Titanium level, Service Delivery partner of Dell and happy to help, if interested.

[@videofeed99]

@@karankumarcalasthy6628 Sure, do you have a video you can recommend where it makes sense to have on premises Azure and VDIs? At this moment the prices I see from Microsoft can not compete with just creating a ProxMox server and creating 9 VMs which I only have to pay once per VM OS,.vs having to pay monthly fees. It's a waste of resources to have to create 9 VMs. We could use MS Enterprise multisession instead of full VMs but Microsoft does support that on premises to my understanding. We really only need 2 or 3 VMs the most. We mostly use web apps and very little storage.

[@rcobsesssed]

I don't believe this solution is aimed at SMB or cost savings, rather it's for enterprise edge cases when a user's desktop needs to be very close to data/databases/etc... or close to users when here's no local Azure datacenter in country etc...

[@manishkumar73]

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[@ebibibi]

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[@domibrothers]

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[@373323]

we need more fish

[@thatLion01]

This calls the end of VMware. Broadcom killed them. Now Microsoft azure will totally destroy VMware.