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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Exciting news for all IT professionals: Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI is now officially available, opening up a wealth of new opportunities to bring the Microsoft Cloud directly into your data centers.
In today’s complex IT landscape, IT professionals are faced with the challenge of bringing their companies to the cloud, especially when not every workload is an ideal fit in the cloud. Managing hybrid cloud migrations coupled with the needs of distributed teams requires a comprehensive approach that balances performance and accessibility with security and control. For organizations requiring desktop virtualization for applications that must remain on-premises for performance reasons, data locality, or regulatory requirements, Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI could be the right solution.
What is Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI?
Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI combines the benefits of Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Stack HCI, enabling organizations to securely run virtualized desktops and applications on-premises, at edge locations, or in their data center. For companies that e.g. For example, if you have data residency requirements or latency-sensitive workloads, Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI enables you to extend the capabilities of the Microsoft cloud directly into your data centers.
With Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI you can:
Improve performance for Azure Virtual Desktop users in areas with poor connectivity to the Azure public cloud by placing session hosts closer to their location. Meet data locality requirements by keeping application and user data on-premises. Access on legacy on-premises applications and data sources by keeping desktops and apps in the same place.Deliver the full Windows experience while maintaining cost effectiveness with Windows 11 and Windows 10 Enterprise Multi-Session.Your VDI deployment and Unify management compared to traditional on-premises VDI solutions by leveraging the Azure Portal.Achieve the best performance by using RDP Shortpath for low latency access.Get the latest fully patched images quickly and easily using Azure Marketplace- Provide images.
How do you get started?
Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI is available with the new feature release of Azure Stack HCI. After you provision an Azure Stack HCI cluster, it becomes available as a resource location for Azure Virtual Desktop host pools. To run Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI, you must first ensure that you are properly licensed. Take advantage of the new possibilities with Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI.