Open-source alternative · Cloud Virtual Desktop
Replace Azure Virtual Desktop with Apache Guacamole + Proxmox VE.
Azure Virtual Desktop: AVD
Apache Guacamole for clientless remote desktop (HTML5 browser access) with Proxmox VE for VM hosting. Full VDI without Azure consumption. Self-hosted, no per-user CALs beyond OS licensing.
Today's licence price
2 tiers. Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)'s prices.
Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.
Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.
Five years on the books
What the spend looks like compounding.
Azure Virtual Desktop grows around 10% per year on average. Apache Guacamole + Proxmox VE hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.
Five-year cumulative saving
R0.95M
Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.
How this migration runs
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) → Apache Guacamole + Proxmox VE, in four moves.
Audit
Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.
Plan
Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.
Migrate
Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.
Operate
Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.
Same category
Other cloud virtual desktop migrations.
Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.
Check the project
Migrate Azure Virtual Desktop.
Keep the money.
Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.