Calculating and recommending a configuration for capacity and performance requirements

This section provides a high-level set of recommendations for sizing Azure Virtual Desktop. This will help you to plan and also calculate the costs of what the compute resource may look like. It is advised that you load test all the workloads, even when following guided recommendations.

Multi-session recommendations

The following examples should be used as guidance for initial performance estimates. As you build out your Azure Virtual Desktop environment, you will need to tweak and adjust these configurations to meet the requirements of your user base.

The following table shows the number of users per vCPU and the suggested VM hardware configuration for each workload. It also provides an example of session host sizing recommendations based on the number of users per vCPU and workload type. This example is suitable for 20 users or less:

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