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Session Hosts Limits
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Description

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.

Transcript

Let's talk about limits for Session Hosts.

Well, there kind of are none, at least not when the number of users are concerned. There's also no AVD user license restriction, and there's also no Windows license restriction from packing as many users you want to on a single AVD Session Host. The limitations come in more of the resources that are available on the VM and what those users are doing. So, as always, it depends, and what it depends most on are the apps and their requirements, the overall VM performance, and the numbers of total VMS that you want to manage in your environment. 

Now, as far as the upper limit of Session Host per Host Pool, today, it's 10,000 Session Host per Host Pool. However, it is recommended to have no more than 5,000 Session Host per subscription, per region. So, if you have three Azure subscriptions and you're deployed across three different regions, then you can have 5,000 Session Host per region for a total of 15,000 Session Hosts. Now, if your users and workloads are centered just around these three regions and you need to scale out more, then you can expand across those other subscriptions. So, two subscriptions would give you 30,000,  and if you scale out further across all three subscriptions, you can have 45,000 session hosts.

 

About the Author

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.