We are excited to announce that Personal Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop is generally available as of November 15, 2023! With this feature, organizations with personal host pools can optimize costs by shutting down or hibernating idle session hosts, while ensuring that session hosts can be started when needed.
Personal Desktop Autoscale is Azure Virtual Desktop’s native scaling solution that automatically starts session host virtual machines according to schedule or using Start VM on Connect and then deallocates or hibernates (in preview) session host virtual machines based on the user session state (log off/disconnect).
The following capabilities are now generally available with Personal Desktop Autoscale:
The following capabilities are new in public preview with Personal Desktop Autoscale:
To enable Personal Desktop Autoscale, you need to:
If you want to use Personal Desktop Autoscale with the Hibernate-Resume option, you will need to self-register your subscription and enable Hibernate-Resume when creating VMs for your personal host pool. We recommend you create a new host pool of session hosts and virtual machines that are all enabled with Hibernate-Resume for simplicity. Hibernation can also work with Start VM on Connect for cost optimization.
You can set up diagnostics to monitor potential issues and fix them before they interfere with your Personal Desktop Autoscale scaling plan.
We encourage you to learn more about setting up autoscale and review frequently asked questions for more details on how to use autoscale for Azure Virtual Desktop. You may also find these resources helpful:
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