The course is part of this learning path
In this course, you will learn about host pools and session hosts in Azure Virtual Desktop.
Learning Objectives
- Deploy and configure host pools and session hosts
- Set up autoscaling for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Understand Azure Virtual Desktop limits
- Set high availability options for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Use Azure Virtual Desktop session host join options
- Automate Azure Virtual Desktop
Intended Audience
This course is for anyone planning to take the Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty exam and anyone interested in learning how to deploy an AVD environment.
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this course, you should have an administrator-level understanding of Azure Virtual Machines, Azure high availability solutions, Windows management join options, ARM templates, PowerShell, and the Azure CLI.
With those thoughts in mind, how many host pools do you really need?
As I said before, you can have a unique host pool for every use case. But at the upper limit of a AVD, you can have 400 host pools per Azure Active Directory Tenant. Now, there are also two different kinds of host pools; personal and pooled.
Personal host pools have a single user assigned to each session host. So, if you have 500 users, you'll need 500 session hosts. Pooled host pools can have multiple users logging on to the same session host virtual machine at the same time. So, those same 500 users could all be logged in at the same time across 20 virtual machines.
Dean Cefola is a Principal Azure Engineer at Microsoft and has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years. Dean has been supporting Azure Virtual Desktop from the beginning and is the Microsoft FastTrack Global Leader for AVD.