So what sorts of things can we do with Nerdio?Īutomate and simplify the process of updating AVD images, using the Nerdio image building and refresh automation the labor-intensive aspects of desktop image management and updates in AVD cease to be as labor-intensive and complex because Nerdio will do all the provisioning for you. With the release of AVD, or WVD as it was then, the application of the existing Nerdio technology to go above and beyond its original remit became clear and the Nerdio I know (and have grown to love) today was born. On the face of it Nerdio makes the day-to-day administration tasks of AVD much easier by putting everything you need in one place, accessible via a few mouse clicks and in an intuitive manner, so if that was all it does it would be a huge improvement.īut there is more, Nerdio was originally designed as a tool to make automation in Azure easier primarily via the use of PowerShell scripting and an interface that simplified the task of creating scripts that using Azure alone can be quite daunting unless you are an expert, in doing so it opened up the features of Azure that are ‘under the hood’ and not accessible via the GUI. Tasks that would take a software installation followed by 3 or 4 mouse clicks to update a desktop image in for all users in VMware Horizon take dozens of clicks in AVD, nor is the update process intuitive, yes you will get used to it, but it’s overly complex. Is it unnecessarily labor-intensive to manage and monitor virtual desktops as an administrator on a day-to-day basis? Yes.Ĭompared to products like VMware Horizon that have evolved over the last decade to be the paradigms of ease of use and efficiency behind-the-scenes, AVD falls short. Is it functional? Yes, is it logical? Yes. The slight problem with AVDīut as an architect and administrator of VMware Horizon for the last 7 years there is, in the authors opinion one area that AVD falls down slightly, the management plane. Now though, AVD has really brought out an offering that is not only feature rich, boasts features that the other vendors can’t support or supply (Windows 10 multi-session for example), add to this that logically the AVD desktops sit logically ‘local’ to the O365 suite of software that is being adopted by organisations every day and Microsoft have finally taken their rightful place at the top of the virtual desktop pile. Historically, they have lost market share to the likes of Citrix and VMware who have each touted their own award-winning desktop virtualisation platforms that have excelled and made the Microsoft offerings look very much like the poor cousin. Why use Nerdio? An EUC specialist’s opinionĪVD is without doubt a great virtual desktop platform and with AVD, Microsoft have really taken the lessons learned over the last 20 years of desktop virtualisation and made sure not to make the same mistake again.
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