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Backup for Azure Virtual Desktop Pooled VMs
Hi there, We have created a specific multi-session Virtual Deskop host and pool for our Sage Account/Payroll 50 users. In order to allow the shared data to be accessed by all users on the host, w...
Will this be an active-active scenario or an active-passive scenario? Recommended disaster recovery methods
The disaster recovery methods we recommend are:
Configure and deploy Azure resources across multiple availability zones.
Configure and deploy Azure resources across multiple regions in either active-active or active-passive configurations. These configurations are typically found in shared host pools.
For personal host pools with dedicated VMs, replicate VMs using Azure Site Recovery to another region.
Configure a separate "disaster recovery" host pool in the secondary region. During a disaster, you can switch users over to the secondary region.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/disaster-recovery-concepts
- Okay thanks for the info. Will take a look at that.
I guess what I was asking is why it's okay to use the Azure Backup option for Peronsal VMs but not Pooled. I know I'm not strictly using the Pooled VMs within best practices, but just wondered if there was any reason why the backup wouldn't work on a Pooled VM. I think I'll just give it a try and see if it works.- Ictimcoles how did your testing work out?
We are interested in this solution as well for when speedy recovery to the previous day is desirable/necessary and ASR isn't really helpful as it will have replicated the corruption to the alternate zone or region.
Malcom, is there a reason that Microsoft discourages backing up shared AVD pools with Azure Backup?
Thanks- We used the native backup and it seems to work really well. We also tested the file level restore and we were able to restore individual files from the backed up Managed disk.
