Hey frands.
Has anyone explored using Windows Virtual Desktop as a remote and/or disaster recovery solution? If so, have you found it successful with a self-hosted instance of Tessitura? I would love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this post or reach out to me directly at enash@2st.com.
Thanks so much!
Thanks for the quick replies, Scott Trapani and Mike Tiernan! How do your VDI instances handle the Tessitura .ini file for each users' Tessitura defaults? From my understanding of the Windows VDI, each session could live on any one of multiple host servers depending on the size of the environment. The users' profile is stored in terms of their default desktop views, but I'm curious how the Tessitura defaults would save to that user's profile. We're currently setup with a GPO that saves a local instance of Tessitura to the user's personal computer. If the user's personal computer keeps changing (in terms of host VMs), how can I get the local .ini file to stick to each individual user's VDI instance?
Additional question regarding cloud hosting - How/where are your file server(s) hosted? We're looking at Azure File Storage vs. Sharepoint, but are concerned about some of Marketing's massive files and egress traffic to load those files, as well as general performance speeds.
Thoughts?
P.S. Larry Becker and Eugene Karyakin, you might find this thread useful as well. Any updates you can provide on your end with Windows VDI?
Emily,
Like I mentioned before we run VMWare Horizon View and our BO staff use persistent desktops. Our Tessitura environment is running on Windows RDS and we have multiple shortcuts that point to their specific Tessitura ini files (Live, Test, Dev, etc...) Below is a screenshot of what someone could have access to.
As for your file server question I am currently spearheading that same project. We have discussed Azure File Storage, Amazon FSx and SharePoint. Azure File Storage and Amazon FSx are both good alternatives (but could be costly depending on your storage requirements) we just decided that we already have SharePoint online and the integration with the other office products helped with the decision (plus it is included in our Office365 Subscription). We are also moving users personal drives to One Drive for Business. Currently our Marketing design team has their own storage appliance independent from our file server for their files and I have the same concern as you regarding performance & traffic. We are currently testing SharePoint as our file server for our department currently so i'll keep you posted on how that goes.