MicrosoftDannyC73 My understanding for the Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid fee, is that the physical cores wouldn't come into it, nor the number of users (as the licenses for them are taken care of with M365/Windows licenses etc), but using your 128 vCore example:
- Let's say you have 32 Windows 11 Multi-Session virtual desktops, each with 4 vCPUs configured
- In this example, each multi-session VM is shared by 4 users, but it could be more, it could be less, it wouldn't change the cost
- Let's say those desktops run for exactly 260 hours a month, powered off outside of those times.
- 260 hours x 128 cores total across the 32 VMs x $0.01 per month, as you correctly calculated is $333 per month. But, it would require you to manage the runtime of those VMs, to ensure they don't run over the 260 hours.
This is, as you've called out, in addition to the AzSHCI fee at $10 per core, per month. This itself can be $0 if you take advantage of the Azure Hybrid Benefit, through existing Windows Server Datacenter + Software Assurance licenses.
SteveDMSFT can likely clarify if the AVD for AzSHCI Service Fee meter is actually more granular than per hour, and they just use a round number of $0.01 per hour instead of using something like $0.000166666667 per minute in their messaging and pricing info 🙂
