Virtual desktop infrastructure: providing users with desktops running on VMs in a datacentre. Microsoft advises against Azure Arc for VDI machines that only live briefly.
Also called virtual desktop infrastructure.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains VDI in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Virtual machines
Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.
- Datacenter
A building packed with racked servers that has its own electricity supply, cooling and network links. Microsoft gathers these buildings into Azure regions, and as a customer you pick the region, never which building your resources land in.
- Azure Arc
Azure service for managing servers that live outside Azure without moving them, by installing the Azure Connected Machine agent; it does not migrate anything.