Planning a host pool architecture

A host pool is one or multiple VMs within Azure using the same image. These are registered as AVD session hosts that have a configured AVD agent. It is recommended that all session host VMs 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 to users through app groups, as mentioned...