So my Citrix renewal just went up 3x per month fro...
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So my Citrix renewal just went up 3x per month from my partner. WTF! I think it's time to entertain going back to physical perhaps....
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m
Ouch, have several customers feeling thisโ€ฆCombined with VMware cost increase as well
n
15 locations and vpn's all around, physical doesn't scare me too much, however i would need a reliable roaming profile solution i think
r
oof
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One thing to consider, plenty of new solutions are out there... Also, with Omnissa leaving VMware, this opens the door as a potential option for consideration.
r
I see lots of AVD in people's future.
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n
avd would be way too costly and you gotta add on nerdio to make it usable...
gotta check out parallels ras, however we run a bunch of pi4's and they no longer have an arm client i believe...
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We use AVD and Nerdio. Nerdio does an excellent job of cutting down our AVD spend by about 60%. It definitely has a good ROI.
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so rough numbers, i'm at $21/user/month just for citrix licensing, everything is on prem. i can't reduce any esx hosts even with citrix going away. no way avd+nerdio are going to get anywhere close to that price....
r
You might look at Workspot. They can do On-Premise. I have not priced them, but they claim to be cheaper than Citrix.
m
Majority of the customers I speak with in the nordics is considering avd on Azure stack HCI
remove alot of licensing costs
r
But has to be Azure Stack hardware
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Curious to know how much the license increases amount to and if anyone has really abandoned Citrix in recent times and in favor of what.
m
I know I know ๐Ÿ˜‚ well the license cost has its benefits depending on usage
@Francesco Marciello I have written my own take on it ๐Ÿ˜‚ https://msandbu.org/citrix-vs-azure-virtual-desktop-on-premises-whats-the-cost-difference/
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I know, I read it ๐Ÿ˜„
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@Nick Casagrande Challenge accepted. Letโ€™s do the numbers together
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anyone copy a citrix gold image to parallels ras? i'm guessing just uninstall the vda, right?
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New pricing strategy seems to be called "Titanic" ๐Ÿ˜– ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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Physical... I would engage Liquidware. Same engine can handle app deployment and profile management seamlessly between cloud, on prem virtual, and physical which is a big deal right now.
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@Nick Casagrande Dont know how many users you have, but you can get AVD down under $20 per user per month. Windows 11 : 200hours per month for a 4cpu 16gb ram is $54, you get atleast 4-6users on that host
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thank yo for those numbers, thats definitely interesting, but not something we can accomplish in a short time frame. we have still have data that lives on prem and a sql based accounting system that we are in the process of moving to 365 biz central, but that's 12 months away i suspect.