for smaller deployments, is it viable to run the cloud connectors on vda's?

hell no

why not? 😄 the vda's in question are persistent and not power managed

https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-cloud-government/system-requirements/cloud-connector-requirements.html#server-requirements •

Use dedicated machines for hosting the Cloud Connector. Do not install any other components on these machines.

I can't even imagine the chaos of VDAS trying to register with a CC role hosted on themselves whilst Citrix handle auto updating of the CCs - that would be binge worth watching though as things start looping 🍿

right, that's a good point.. a little tricky to sell two dedicated servers to customers with very small citrix environments..

I feel you, might be a better fit for something that isn't as technically heavy as Citrix?

sure, but this was a lot easier to accomodate as a csp msp with on-prem, wish the cloud connectors were a little more csp friendly

yeah it's a touch painful in that regard

I was forced to do something similar in the past. It was chaos. Don't do that.