
Validation environments let you monitor service updates before the service applies them to your production or non-validation environment. You can set a host pool to be a validation environment. Users can connect to different session hosts every time they connect, so they should store their user profile data in FSLogix. Updated by redeploying session hosts from updated images instead of traditional updates.Įach user only ever uses one session host, so they can store their user profile data on the operating system (OS) disk of the VM.
#Azure virtual desktop software#
Updated with Windows Updates, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), or other software distribution configuration tools. After a user signs out and signs back in, their user session might get load balanced to a different session host.Īutoscale for pooled host pools turns VMs on and off based on the capacity thresholds and schedules the customer defines. Users always have sessions on the session hosts they are assigned to. Users can either be directly assigned to session hosts or be automatically assigned to the first available session host.

Under high concurrent connection load when multiple users connect to the host pool at the same time, the number of sessions created on a session host can exceed the maximum session limit. You can choose which load balancing algorithm to use: breadth-first or depth-first.Īs configured by the Max session limit value of the properties of a host pool. User sessions are load balanced to session hosts in the host pool based on user session count. If the user isn't currently assigned to a session host, the user session is load balanced to the next available session host in the host pool. User sessions are always load balanced to the session host the user is assigned to. The following table goes into more detail about the differences between each type of host pool: Feature Pooled host pools provide a shared remote experience to end-users, which ensures lower costs and greater efficiency. There can be multiple different users on a single session host at the same time. Pooled, where user sessions can be load balanced to any session host in the host pool. Personal host pools provide dedicated desktops to end-users that optimize environments for performance and data separation. Personal, where each session host is assigned to an individual user. You control the resources published to users through application groups. All session host virtual machines in a host pool should be sourced from the same image for a consistent user experience. Host poolsĪ host pool is a collection of Azure virtual machines that register to Azure Virtual Desktop as session hosts when you run the Azure Virtual Desktop agent. This topic will tell you a bit more about the terminology and general structure of Azure Virtual Desktop. If you're using Azure Virtual Desktop (classic) without Azure Resource Manager objects, see this article.Īzure Virtual Desktop is a service that gives users easy and secure access to their virtualized desktops and applications.

This content applies to Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure Resource Manager Azure Virtual Desktop objects.
