Citrix vdi azure for free#
Citrix vdi azure full#

Sizing is done based on the number of users and how much GB each user is going to be allowed to utilize. Premium disks in Azure come prebuilt with specific sizes ( each with a different price tag obviously more expensive than standard HDD disk which would not work for S2D on the cloud ) and uses Mirror to establish its usable capacity so you will get 50% of all premium disks added as usable storage for user profiles/data. S2D on Azure VMs requires at least 2 virtual machines in an availability set to ensure HA and a minimum of 2 premium disks attached to each VM other than the OS disk.

Citrix vdi azure for free#

This HCI solution that is included for free with Datacenter license on server 2016 would allow us to utilize data disks attached to VMs on azure and formulate a failover cluster and build an SOFS Scale out file server on top to host user data/profiles making it highly available and really fast since premium вЂњSSDвЂќ disks would be utilized for the same. In the realm of server 2012 R2, the only option was to use DFS-R for highly available consistent file share repositories on Azure that would decently work for user profiles/data but with Server 2016 Microsoft released its own Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solution called Storage Spaces Direct вЂњS2DвЂќ which leverages local disks on several servers to create a shared pool of disk that can be used in a cluster deployment. If you are not familiar with HCI solutions like Nutanix, VSAN, Simplivity, Hyperflex and now S2D, Its time you get up to speed and Fast ! Come in Microsoft S2D Storage Spaces Direct on Server 2016 with Failover Cluster Cloud Witness.

Citrix vdi azure full#

In the span of 4 hours we were not only able to present on a high level of-course both Citrix Cloud and Microsoft Azure Architecture but also deploy the whole shebang from the ground up and test NetScaler/Storefront on Microsoft Azure integrated with Citrix Cloud in all 3 possible scenarios.ДЄ question that popped up most of the time was if we had a full Microsoft Azure Datacenter environment, where would we save user data and profiles !? Excellent question and with Server 2016 Microsoft has the perfect answer. In our first Citrix User Group Community kickoff meeting here in Dubai, I had the opportunity to present and demonstrate Citrix Cloud XenApp and XenDesktop Service integrated with Microsoft Azure.