New Company to Azure and Citrix
Greetings all, I hope I am posting appropriate questions in the appropriate section -- there is just so much out there. If this isn't the exact space, please kindly direct me to where I should be. I am a new company working with Citrix and Azure and we are fairly new to cloud hosting. I worked with Citrix to get the Azure/Citrix link established and now I am for the most part, up on Azure. I have a couple of questions. 1) My company is currently on Microsoft Action pack. There apparently is a $100 credit each month allocated to us as we grow. Does this credit just eat way per Azure VM usage and then charge a card, and have the cycle repeat each month? 2) With Citrix comes licensing. The Citrix portion is handled by Citrix but I still need RDS licencing. Do / would I go to my distributor, work out a deal, and build a new company RDS license server in Azure? What's this Splock thing I keep hearing about? Something to do with RDS licensing as I use them? 3) Backups. Although Citrix advertises 'their' cloud, the back-end is definitively Azure. My question is, how are VMs backed up? An additional service provided by Azure? For example if I go to a customer and they inquire how VMs are backed up.. what do I tell them? "Azure handles it and not to worry?" -- I'm afraid that's not going to going over too well. Futhermore, if a customer is uncomfortable having Azure maintain their VM files, what alternative are there? 4) As a Microsoft partner, I have to believe there is a pricing list for us versus traditional customer rates. Does anyone know where to find this price sheet?
Blob Storage aggregation across domain / subscriptions to reduce cost --- possible
Block Blob storage has pricing tiers based on TB stored. You receive a discount for each level you achieve. These tiers exist for all Storage Account Type i.e. Blob, General Purpose v1 and v2. I wanted to know if there is a mechanism to "link" tenant domains and or Azure subscriptions to aggregate the total amount of data stored in blob cool such that I could achieve the lower cost spend tiers more quickly. Trying to think of ways to save money. Thank you
