Citrix DaaS

自动定量

自动定量is a feature exclusive to Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) that provides a consistent, high-performance solution to proactively power manage your machines. It aims to balance costs and user experience. Autoscale incorporates the deprecated Smart Scale technology into theManageconsole’s power management solution.

自动定量enables proactive power management of all registered single-session and multi-session OS machines in a delivery group.

自动定量features include:

Supported VDA hosting platforms

自动定量supports all the platforms that Citrix DaaS supports. This includes various infrastructure platforms including Citrix Hypervisor, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure Resource Manager, VMware vSphere, and many more. For a complete list of supported platforms, seeSystem requirementsfor Citrix DaaS.

Supported workloads

自动定量supports both multi-session OS and single-session OS delivery groups. There are three user interfaces to be aware of:

  • 自动定量user interface for multi-session OS delivery groups (formerly RDS delivery groups)

  • 自动定量user interface for single-session OS random (pooled) delivery groups (formerly pooled VDI delivery groups)

  • 自动定量user interface for single-session OS static delivery groups (formerly static VDI delivery groups)

For more information about the user interfaces for different delivery groups, see自动定量user interfaces.

Benefits

The Autoscale feature delivers the following benefits:

  • Provide you with a single, consistent mechanism to power manage machines in a delivery group.

  • Ensure availability and control costs by powering machines with load-based or schedule-based power management, or a combination of both.

  • To monitor metrics such as cost savings and capacity utilization, and to enable notifications, useDirector, available on theMonitortab.

Watch a 2-minute video

The following video provides a quick tour of Autoscale.

自动定量