Business Use For VDIs

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Hello,
I’ve been working in UiPath with my new company for 5 months now and have introduced the company to this tool. At the beginning, i was working in Studio and running attended automations from my physical machine. We are now to the point where we have purchased 2 production bots and ready to run unattended automations. I submitted a request for a VDI and to get assistant installed so that i can start running these automations. It’s met with some resistance as to why VDI is needed instead of running on physical machine. I’ve got a meeting tomorrow with VDI group to explain further why this is needed, but was wondering if anyone could provide a great response as to why this is needed to further the automation process. (i did already explain that it doesn’t make sense to run unattended on my physical as it takes over my machine, also getting errors that windows already has active session open). Any responses or links to great explanations would be welcome.

Thanks,
Chris

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@chris.dease

  1. They can run on physical machine also but they need to be on everytime which is extra hardware cost for vdi atleast we dont have that over head
  2. It can run during anytime in the day and vdi suits that as physical machines I dont think they would keep it turned on 24*7
  3. If we use only physical machines that belong to some person taking a unattended license is like waste of money as we dont run any unattended at all…attended licenses shoudl suffice
  4. If on the user machine itself if it is running then the purpose of automation is defeated to free up time for the user for other better work
  5. Scaling up a vdi if needed for more bots is more viable than physical machines
  6. Also if machines run continuously without turning off they tend to not work due to over load

cheers

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thanks! this was very helpful and useful in my meeting.

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