MicrosoftTo the point that VMs do not need to be on 24/7. What if your VMs are for call centers that are staffed 24/7 or close to? When looking at the solution to replace physical desktops you also have to look into how you’re going to patch and do security scans. Right now we are assuming we need a few hours a day to allow for full security scans and patching.
in our case we expect two shifts of users on AVD and a potential third. We have a lot of security and regulations to deal with so we also don’t see the possibility these VM’s will be powered off much.
Today our org has thousands of desktops on shelves stored in a buildings all over the world with agents who RDP into those desktops to work. (It’s not pretty but it is pretty cheap) When the org looks at what it’s spent on desktops and network to allow those employees to work it’s really hard to justify the AVD tax of .01 per vCPU per hour. While it’s cheaper than running in Azure AVD at 56 a user per month… it’s still too high when the hardware for stack HCI. EVL Datacenter cores help save some $ but when all added up it gets pretty costly. There is no reason for the .01 per hour charge.
