Amount of Resources CPU and Memory per user

Question

Hi,
We are looking to deploy a Line of Business Application via RemoteApp and a custom template.  The application requires a significant amount of RAM and CPU, can someone tell me who much RAM and CPUs are allocated per session \ user?  I would expect
that we would use the Standard tier if any difference to resources available.
Thanks
Giles

Answer 1

Hi James,
Currently there is no way to configure resources other than selecting either Basic or Standard.  If you would like a lower per-VM user density (and thus higher resources for each user) what you can do is create more collections, and only assign
a small number of users to each.
For example, say you only wanted to have a maximum of 4 users on each VM, providing typically at least 1 vCPU per user.  In this case you would create collections with the Basic plan, each linked
to the same template image, and only assign a maximum of 4 user accounts on the user access tab of each.  Assuming each user uses 80+ hours a month, the total (before discounts) cost for each collection would be $228/month, making each user
cost about $57/month, slightly less than equivalent cost under Standard plan pricing if you factor in resources per user.
You probably already know this, but I will explain how scaling works normally for others that may read this.  Azure RemoteApp will automatically create more VMs for each collection as needed to handle user load (Scale-Out) and shut down VMs when the
user load is reduced (Scale-In).  The key thing that affects this scaling mechanism is the maximum concurrent users allowed on each VM, which for Standard is 10.
In your case you are asking if you can have more resources per user, hence my instructions above for creating multiple collections and limiting the number of assigned users to less than 10 each.
Depending on your unique needs it may make more sense to create a custom RDS deployment on Azure IaaS VMs.  In this case you could control the size/type of VM used, user density, etc.  Downside is you have to set up and manage more
RDS components than you do if you use Azure RemoteApp.
-TP