New features for Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI

Today we’re excited to announce new features in Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI that will help administrators responsible for configuring, managing, and optimizing VDI environments. We also announced that Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI now supports per-user access pricing.

Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI will be generally available in February 2024 with the goal of bringing the security and feature-rich functionality of Microsoft Azure to customers who cannot run virtualized workloads in the cloud or need the benefits of low-latency access to cloud capabilities. It is done. Additionally, Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI is designed to work well in hybrid scenarios, with Azure Virtual Desktop features including Windows 11, Windows 11, and Windows 10 multi-session launch capabilities.

Over the past eight months, customers across multiple industries, including healthcare, government, retail, financial services, and education, have adopted Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI to help IT managers, customers, and students reap the benefits of cloud virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). I did it. ) Complies with organizational requirements regarding public cloud use. We received a lot of great feedback and used it to inform our innovation roadmap.

New features that are generally available and easily accessible

It’s not just the general availability of new features that we’re announcing. We’re also excited to share that these features described below are already accessible through Azure Virtual Desktop for the Azure Stack HCI management environment.

Autoscaling for host pools

auto resize Now generally available in the Azure Virtual Desktop host pool on Azure Stack HCI. Autoscaling allows you to optimize deployment costs by scaling available session hosts up or down on a schedule. The same scaling plans that apply to Azure virtual machines (VMs) can now be applied to Azure Stack HCI VMs.

Start a VM from Connect

Start a VM from Connect Helps reduce costs by allowing users to power on VMs that serve as session hosts only when needed. You can then power off the VM when it is not needed. Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI users now has the option to use this feature on Azure Stack HCI VMs.

Windows 11 and Windows 10 Enterprise single-session images from Azure Marketplace

IT administrators can now download Windows 11 or Windows 10 Enterprise single-session images from: Azure Marketplace On an Azure Stack HCI cluster. By making single and multi-session Windows 11 images available, administrators gain additional flexibility when choosing VMs for session hosts.

Azure Marketplace catalog for Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI

Azure Virtual Desktop Insights support

Azure Virtual Desktop provides a centralized first-party monitoring solution that allows IT administrators to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues within their environment. You can now monitor Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts using Azure Stack HCI. Azure Virtual Desktop Insights.

Screenshot of sample Azure Virtual Desktop Insights report

Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI supports per-user access pricing.

Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI now supports per-user access pricing. Organizations, including independent software vendors (ISVs), can already use Azure Virtual Desktop to provide a software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment for software access to external users.

This offer and per-user access pricing model is now also available to organizations and ISVs who want to provide external users with access to their solutions through Azure Stack HCI. Learn more about pricing Please contact your sales representative for more details.

What’s next for Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI?

We are thrilled with the enthusiastic response Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI has received from our customers, and we continue to listen to customer feedback. We are committed to a path of continued innovation for Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI.

If you are an existing customer, thank you for participating. If you are interested in Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI, contact your local Microsoft sales representative to schedule an information session.

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