AVD Host Pools

 In our earlier articles we understood that AVD is a Azure service that give acesss to the Desktops and Applications in a more secure way.

To publish these Applications or Desktops we use Host Pools. Host Pool is a collection of Virtual Machines that are used to publish Applications or desktops to the users.The Virtual Machines (VDAs) in a Host Pool which are called as Session Hosts are created using a Image Templete/Master Image.

Session Hosts can be didicated i.e., one VDA for one user in azure terms we call it is as Personal or these can be shared in azure terms we call it as Pooled.

Let us understand this with a small picture above, for Personal Host Pool Win11 (Not Multisession, AVD provides Win11 Multisession as well.) Master image is used to deploy Session Hosts and each user got his own VDA. Where as for Pooled Host Pool Win2022  Multisession Master image is used to deploy Session Host(s) and all the users are sharing a single Session Host.