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Turn Off a host in the pool
If I create an Azure WVD host pool with two VMs, can I just shutdown one of them to stop paying for the compute power? Meaning is that all I need to do is shut down the second host VM (via the Azure...
Jeff Gustafson: I recommend to review this article that explains VM states and in which state you are billed: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/states-lifecycle
If you are on our Fall release we have here describing how to leverage scaling :https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/virtual-desktop-fall-2019/set-up-scaling-script
We are working on providing this as well for spring release. You can watch our roadmap for updates: https://aka.ms/wvdroadmap