I'm curious about everyone's VDI setups. What tools are you using—are they on-premises or cloud-hosted? How many users are you supporting with your VDI solution? What motivated you to choose this particular setup, and how do you manage its funding?
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We transitioned from on-prem Horizon to Windows 365 late last year. We're now serving about 350 users. It's not the cheapest option, but it works really well for us.
We also run on-prem Horizon. It's fantastic for accessing desktops from any internet-connected device!
How do you handle certificate renewals for your connection managers?
We’re using a hybrid Citrix setup.
We're using Self-hosted Horizon, and it's been our go-to for about 15 years. It truly excels in what it does!
How many seats are you managing with that?
Do you use UAGs for external access? We're trying to figure out how to automate cert renewals since they're only valid for 47 days.
Our setup is Azure AVD. It's super cost-effective and high-performing for us, and we currently support about 100 users, scaling up as needed.
Just a heads up, if you're new to VDI, you might realize that Citrix licensing could be steep compared to your salary, and VMware might give you a shock too!
We're also using Azure Virtual Desktop along with Windows 365. Currently, we have around 200 users connecting.
We've got both on-prem and Azure Horizon with vGPU support. It's solid, but definitely on the pricey side.
On-prem hosted Horizon has been our choice for over 10 years. We have a 300 concurrent user license, using non-persistent desktop pools. The main motivation was to reduce the infrastructure spread across multiple locations, consolidating our compute resources. Now, anyone outside our main offices just needs a good endpoint and an internet connection to log into their VDI session, which has significantly reduced support calls related to individual applications.
We're managing AWS WorkSpaces with Intune, and the setup works beautifully!
How many users do you support?