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Azure Virtual Desktop management: hosts, sessions, scaling

See Azure Virtual Desktop host pools and sessions in one view, manage scaling plans and see estimated savings. Compare Windows 365 costs using your own data.

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Notes

  • The estimated saving's method: the hours each host was off in the 30 days to 02:00 on 21 October, from power events in the Azure activity log, at D4s v5 pay-as-you-go rates (UK South for £, East US for $). It covers hp-ops-uks and hp-legal-ne. The Azure invoice shows the actual charges.
  • The cost comparison's basis: the TCO Advisor's estimate for 40 users (30 days of session-host compute, OS disks, Log Analytics monitoring, FSLogix profile storage and network egress), against Windows 365 Enterprise 2 vCPU 8 GB at list price.
  • Logging off ends a session, and any unsaved work is lost.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Two in the morning: which hosts still need to run?
  2. 0:14Host pools and sessions in one view
  3. 0:30Logging off is your decision, and scaling plans
  4. 0:44What scaling saved, and a Windows 365 comparison

Transcript

  1. 0:02It's two in the morning. Which Azure Virtual Desktop hosts still need to be running?
  2. 0:08Seven of these fourteen hosts are running, with no active sessions.
  3. 0:14EtherInsights shows your host pools and sessions in one view.
  4. 0:20One pool has no scaling plan.
  5. 0:24Review disconnected sessions. They can keep a pool from scaling down overnight.
  6. 0:30Logging off is your decision, and the page asks first.
  7. 0:36Manage scaling plans. They are Microsoft's own, and EtherInsights helps you set one up on a pool.
  8. 0:44Then see what scaling has already saved, estimated from running history and shown with its basis.
  9. 0:52If you're considering Windows 365, compare the costs using information from your own environment.
  10. 1:00Try EtherInsights free for fourteen days on your own tenant.