Are you looking for an easy-to-use and all-in solution to manage Azure Virtual Desktop in terms of cost savings, imaging, rollout, user handling, automation, and life-cycle management? Then Hydra is your solution.

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, capture images from Golden Masters, configure an auto-adapt scaling, maintain session hosts and pools automatically, role-based user session management, and much more.

Key benefits

• Let manage Hydra the core aspects of your Azure Virtual Desktop environment
• Save resources costs while using Hydras' automation and scaling options
• Automatically update and patch session hosts
• Give your helpdesk a powerful solution to support your end-users
• And much more

Key features

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

• Multi-tenancy
• Role-based access
• Management of user sessions
  • Logoff, messages, shadow user sessions, delete FSLogix profiles, user processes
• Image management
  
• 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
  • Assign and remove users from dedicated hosts
• Autoscale / Autoadapt / Autoconsolidate
  • 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*
    • Consolidate session after business hours to scale down hosts*
  • VDI
    • Auto deallocate session hosts, spare hosts
• Session Timeouts
• Session host definitions for rollouts
  • Per host pool
  • Images and shared images
  • Copy configuration
• Auto Health
  • Remove orphan sessions*
• Automatic disk change
• 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, …
• And much more