Move an existing AVD session host to a different Host Pool

[Timlowenna]

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

[#2]

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%2Cgu...

[#3]

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.

[#4]

@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).

[#5]

@Timlowenna 

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