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Windows Virtual Desktop Experience Estimator
The https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/assessment/ is now live! Use the estimation tool to view the round trip time your end users would experience with Windows Virtual Desktop. The tool uses the location of the device used to access it to determine round trip times to each Azure region via the Windows Virtual Desktop infrastructure.
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- Tool is offline
Hi all.
Does anyone know why this tool is not working anymore?
The old link leads to "Analyze connection quality in Azure Virtual Desktop".
b.r.,
PanKok
Incadea_PanKok Microsoft support told me this page was decommissioned because it wasn't accurate enough. They might come with something else in the future. no ETA.
It is a shame because this tool was an easy starting point to locate the closest DC for a user's AVD location. Now I have to look at google map and estimate with my thumb the distance to the locations, nice....
US West 2 and US West 3 are also missing. We can deploy to them, but can't show clients what the experience would be like. 😞
We have just deployed this service at Santos Ltd and will look at dropping it if a gateway is not set up for Australia as the response times are just too slow remoting into the machine outside of RDS (e.g. using RDP we have great performance but it's not practical) dhavalg
Peter Campbell Agreed. We are doing RDP for now just to build the environment. We've put off too many projects waiting for WVD to go GA that we can't hold off anymore. Citrix is a great paring for now but additional cost.
Massively disappointing but hopefully soon!I was told by a WVD Specialist to use Citrix cloud too .....
It's cheaper to use our own on-prem Citrix farm We are only looking at this as its cheaper but paying for Citrix licensing negates the cost-saving on the multi-session Windows license and user CAL licenses...
If I took that to my management team they would laugh!
dhavalg - I am based in Australia and when I use the tool, it says East US 2 is the closest region? How is that possible when Microsoft has 4 regions in Australia??
Also the round trip is over 200ms!
Is it because Microsoft stats "Windows Virtual Desktop comprises the Windows desktops and apps you deliver to users and the management solution, which is hosted as a service on Azure by Microsoft. Desktops and apps can be deployed on virtual machines (VMs) in any Azure region, and the management solution and data for these VMs will reside in the United States (US East 2 region). This may result in data transfer to the United States."
roshanny - Microsoft has regions in which you can deploy VMs all over the world. However, connecting to these VMs with Windows Virtual Desktop requires using the Windows Virtual Desktop infrastructure, which is not in every region. You will experience the lowest round trip times if your VMs are co-located with the WVD infrastructure, which is not necessarily in the Azure region that is closest to your device's physical location.
oh! I think this is the reason why I see UK RTT is lesser when i open the tool from Mumbai where West India should be having less latency.
As it connects with other service of virtual desktop like connection broker or gateway and then to the region of the session host. it is cumulative RTT of the VDI infra + Azure Region where the session host pools.
- Something needs to get done ASAP
Aussies are getting left out. See other threads also.
