Is there money to be saved on having Azure virtual desktop (AVD) users to shutdown their PCs each night. (Havnt used it before) For RDSH\Citrix shared desktop boxes in Azure it makes sense to have users log off each night as we can shut down the servers they are logging into to save some money.

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If you have reserved instances, then no. If you are using pay as you go, then yes.

Do people used reserved instances for user desktops? And AVD is not like microsoft cloud PCs where you pay a flat rate regardless of if its on or not?

AVD is a weird term, cause it covers a lot of things. Are they single user sessions, multi-user session? I have had some people use reserved instances when they were in the D class for machines that ran multi-user 24x7. It really depends on what your pricing is setup for in Azure.

good point, i can see how multisession is just like rdsh in this example. So i was just assuming single session with this question. Another question is how in the heck to you get users to save their info each night and log off. I can see that as a head ache

VDI and virtual environments have been around for a while, many orgs had non-persistent desktops or multi-user environments for decades.. users logged off or were forces to log off at night... how did they save their info each night??? How do you manage a persistent desktop environment that never goes down??? when will the user log off if you told them they can leave it on forever? I see VDI/DaaS as a "Desktop as a service" and that means it is there when you need it but at the end of a time (can be one hour, a day, a few days) you return it, "I" destroy it, rebuild it, polish it, update it, make it run perfectly, and you can use it again.. as a service. persistent is like the FAT clients in the 80/90s.. not very flexible and too much local data..

@Rob Beekmans very easy to do in RDSH. Never had an issue with flexibility and local data when designed correctly. Plus as i said im taking about going from a weekly log out to nightly. Not forver

it is all about design and what needs to be achieved, I'm never been a fan of persistent but that has more to do with the management around it. I want the desktop to be fresh from the shop in the morning and not hurdling lots of baggage of the day before with it.. Happy that, with Workspace ONE persistent VDI can be management better and better, much needed as most customers seem to run persistent...