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Published inMar 2022
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Ryan Mangan
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Ryan Mangan

Ryan Mangan is an end-user computing specialist. He is a speaker, presenter and author who has helped customers and technical communities with end-user computing solutions, ranging from small to global 30,000-user enterprise deployments in various fields. Ryan is the owner and author of ryanmangansitblog, which has over 3 million + visitors and over 200+ articles. Some of Ryan’s community and technical awards include: Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), VMware vExpert 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021, VMware vExpert EUC 2021, VMware vExpert Desktop Hypervisor 2021, Very Important Parallels professional program (VIPP) 2019, 20 & 21, LoginVSI Technology Advocate 19, 20.
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Planning a host pools architecture

A host pool is one or multiple virtual machines within Azure using the same image. These are registered as AVD session hosts that have a configured Azure Virtual Desktop agent. It is recommended that all session host virtual machines be deployed from the same template image for optimal user experience in a host pool.

There are two types of host pools:

  • The Personal host pool type is used for individual desktop user assignments.
  • A Pooled host pool type is where session hosts can have multiple users connecting to multiple session hosts, sharing the compute resources of hosts within that host pool.

There are several additional properties available for configuration for host pools. You can also configure the host pool's load balancing behavior, which includes how many sessions each session host can handle and what the user can do while connected to session hosts in the host pool. You control the resources that have been published...

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Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801075022

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Ryan Mangan

Ryan Mangan is an end-user computing specialist. He is a speaker, presenter and author who has helped customers and technical communities with end-user computing solutions, ranging from small to global 30,000-user enterprise deployments in various fields. Ryan is the owner and author of ryanmangansitblog, which has over 3 million + visitors and over 200+ articles. Some of Ryan’s community and technical awards include: Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), VMware vExpert 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021, VMware vExpert EUC 2021, VMware vExpert Desktop Hypervisor 2021, Very Important Parallels professional program (VIPP) 2019, 20 & 21, LoginVSI Technology Advocate 19, 20.
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