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

* Currently not available in the US

What our customers say

"We are using Hydra in any Azure Virtual Desktop project to offer our customers and straightforward and easy-to-use solution to manage their environments." - A consulting company, Europe

"We are using Hydra to simple work with Azure Virtual Desktop. Any aspect of user handling, image creation, rollout, and maintenance are covered. And even the perfect scaling approach makes our business case perfect." - Head of Network & Connectivity, Media Group, Europe

About ITProCloud GmbH

ITProCloud GmbH is a company based in Germany. We are building solutions to manage Microsoft Azure services. WVDAdmin and Hydra are the famous solutions we build to enable any company to work with Azure and Azure Virtual Desktop like a pro. As a cloud-native company, we are happy to share knowledge and tools with our customers and the community.

Try Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop now

Hydra 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. 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. New: Simple license your current Hydra installation with the Billing Subscription.

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Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)ITProCloud GmbH4.9(7 Bewertungen)

Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

ITProCloud GmbH

Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

ITProCloud GmbH

Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
ITProCloud GmbH
4.9(7 Bewertungen)