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Move an existing AVD session host to a different Host Pool
Hello All,
Hoping you can help. We want to do some testing with some of our AVD's and need to move them to a different Host Pool. I have had a look and can't see a 'migrate' or 'copy' option.
We would be really grateful if someone might be able to point us in the right direction.
Cheers
You may required to Remove Session Host from Current Host Pool, Generate a Registration Token for the New Host Pool and Add Session Host to the New Host Pool
- If you have an image, you can just deploy a new host to the new pool using the image.
Otherwise, you can remove a host from the pool and then use the instructions here to add them to the new pool: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/add-session-hosts-host-pool?tabs=portal%2Cgui#register-session-hosts-to-a-host-pool- thanks so much for that. the thing is if the testing works we have 9 existing AVD's that have already been built, configured and currently in production that we want to move in to the new host pool.
TimlowennaWere these hosts deployed from an image? If so and the image has been kept up-to-date, it would be much simpler to just deploy new hosts to the new host pool using the image.
If for whatever reason you don't have an image, during a maintenance window, you can remove a host from the pool and then sysprep this VM and capture a new image. You can then use this image to deploy hosts to the new pool (and to redeploy the host you removed from the current pool).
