Hydra is the solution to manage Azure Virtual Desktop for one or more tenants. Hydra’s web platform allows administrators to deploy new session hosts, configure an auto-adapt scaling, maintain session hosts and pools automatically, and much more.

With Hydra, the operation of Azure Virtual Desktop is easy as it never was before.

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Notable Features

  • Multi-tenancy
  • Role-based access
  • Image management
    • Create images from VMs / Golden Masters without destroying the source VM
    • Copy images to shared image galleries
    • Delete older images or gallery images
    • Deploy session hosts based on images
  • Management of user sessions
    • Logoff, messages, shadow user sessions, delete FSLogix profiles
    • In preview: Show user processes, incl. CPU and memory usage; Terminate user processes (requires an agent)
  • Management of session hosts
    • Start, Stop, Delete, Restart, Automatically change disk types
    • Create new session hosts with a click (with classic disks or ephemeral)
    • Create new session hosts directly into the drain-mode
    • Automation scripts and script collections
  • Autoscale
    • Multi-Session hosts
      • Power-on-connect support
      • Schedules
      • Autopilot: Automatically scales up/down/create/remove based on the usage of a host pool
      • Deploy hosts on demand - including ephemeral VMs based on a custom image*
      • Delete and rebuild hosts after logoff
    • VDI
      • Auto deallocate session hosts
      • Start spare-host to allow an assign on first connect for new users
      • Create new VDIs if needed based on a custom image*
  • Session Timeouts
  • Session host definitions for rollouts
    • Per host pool
    • Images and shared images
    • Copy configuration
  • Monitoring
    • Shows the storage usage (Azure files, FSLogix profile shares)
  • Auto Health
    • Remove orphan sessions*
  • Automatic disk change
    • Disk type can automatically be changed on start/deallocation/autoscaling to save storage costs (switch between HDD-Premium-HDD or HDD-SSD-HDD)
  • Scripts and Script Collections
    • Run Powershell scripts on session hosts
    • Orchestrate hosts with multiple scripts and tasks: Drain mode on -> Logoff users -> Start the VM -> Run a script -> Restart -> Drain mode off
    • Built-in scripts/collections for Windows Update, Windows 10 optimization, …

* Currently not available in the US

Editions

The project is available as a free community edition, even for commercial use (up to 6 session hosts per host pool and a single tenant) and as a supported licensable product ($2 per concurrent user/month). Hydra will generally work without limitation for the first 30 days and switched to the community edition. Please reach out to extend the trial period or to get a commercial offer.

  • Free community edition, even for commercial use (up to 6 session hosts per host pool and a single tenant). Alle features included.
  • Commercial edition with unlimited session hosts and tenants: $2 per concurrent user (CCU) per month. CCU are counted as the maximum number of users connected to the AVD environment at the same time. Invoicing is for the last month - so no upfront investment and no long-term commitment. Payment can be made through the Azure Subscription (Billing subscription to Hydra).
Edition Description
Free Free community edition, even for commercial use (up to 6 session hosts per host pool and a single tenant). Alle features included.
Commercial edition Commercial edition with unlimited session hosts and tenants: $2 per concurrent user (CCU) per month. CCU are counted as the maximum number of users connected to the AVD environment at the same time. Invoicing is for the last month - so no upfront investment and no long-term commitment. Payment can be made through the Azure Subscription (Billing subscription to Hydra).

Get your quote for the commercial edition: info@itprocloud.com

Documentation and Installation

Install Hydra directly in your subscription with Deploy to Azure from the Azure Marketplace.

Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure Marketplace