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How to set up Azure Virtual Desktop scaling automatically

by Justin Barry
by Justin Barry

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How to set up Azure Virtual Desktop scaling automatically – Guide

Scaling your virtual machines can help you save money on your Azure Virtual Desktop (VMs) deployment. This involves powering off the session host VMs and relocating them during off-peak hours, then powering them back on and relocating them during high usage hours. The sizing tool created using the Azure Automation account and Azure Logic App that automatically scales session host VMs in your Azure Virtual Desktop environment is described in this post. Advance to prerequisites to learn how to use the dimensioning tool.

How does creating a sizing plan work

Before creating your plan, keep the following in mind:

  • You can assign a sizing plan to one or more host pools of the same host pool type. The escalation plan schedule will also apply to all assigned host pools.
  • You can only associate one sizing plan per host pool. If you assign a single sizing plan to multiple host pools, those host pools cannot be assigned to another sizing plan.
  • An escalation plan can only operate in its configured time zone.
  • A scale plan can have one or several schedules. For example, different times during the week and at the weekend.

    • Make sure you understand usage patterns before defining your schedule. You will need to schedule around the following times of day:

  • Ramp-up: the start of the day when usage is selected up.
  • Peak Hours: The time of day when usage is highest.
  • Ramp-down: when usage decreases. This is usually when you shut down your VMs to save costs.
  • Off-peak hours: the hours with the least possible usage. You can set the maximum number of
  • VMs that can be active during that time.
  • The sizing plan will take effect as soon as you activate it.

    • Also, keep these limitations in mind:

  • Do not use auto-sizing in combination with other Microsoft or third-party sizing tools. Be sure to disable those for the host pools to which you apply scale plans.
  • Auto-scaling overrides drain mode, so be sure to use exclusion tags when upgrading VMs in host pools.
  • Autoscaling bypasses existing load balancing algorithms in host pool settings and instead applies load balancing based on the schedule setting.

    • Create a scale plan

    To create a scale plan:

  • Sign in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
  • Go to Azure Virtual Desktop > Escalation Plans and select Create.
  • On the Basics tab, look under Project Details and select the name of the subscription to which you will assign the sizing plan.
  • If you want to create a new resource group, select Create new. If you want to use an existing resource group, select its name from the drop-down menu.
  • Enter a name for the scale plan in the Name field.
  • Optionally, you can also add a “friendly” name that will be displayed to your users and a description for your plan.
  • For Region, select a region for your scale plan. Object metadata will be stored in the geography associated with the region. To learn more about regions, see Data Locations.
  • For Time Zone, select the time zone you will use with your plan.
  • In Exclusion Tags, enter tags for VMs that you do not want to include in scaling operations. For example, you might want to mark VMs that are set to drain mode so that autoscaling does not override drain mode during maintenance.

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    Justin Barry

    Justin Barry has been writing about technology as a career for more than a decade at this point. The majority of that time was spent as a freelance writer covering a wide variety of topics, some examples of which include mobile phones, wearables, tablets, smart home devices, laptops, augmented reality, virtual reality, mobile payments, and fintech.

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