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A company is planning to migrate its operations to Azure. The migration requirements specify:

- The finance team must run a legacy desktop application that requires local administrative rights and a dedicated, persistent operating system state where changes are saved across sessions.
- The customer support team needs access to shared desktop sessions where multiple users run concurrent sessions on the same underlying virtual machine resources to optimize licensing and compute costs.

Which configuration should the company implement to meet these requirements?

  1. A
    Deploy standard Azure Virtual Machines for the finance team, and configure a standard Azure Virtual Machine scale set running Windows 11 Multi-session for the customer support team.
  2. B
    Deploy Azure Virtual Desktop personal host pools for the finance team, and rely on Microsoft to automatically patch the operating systems of the session hosts for both teams.
  3. Deploy Azure Virtual Desktop using a personal host pool for the finance team, and a pooled host pool for the customer support team.Answer
  4. D
    Deploy standard Azure Virtual Machines for both teams, and configure Azure Traffic Manager to distribute the concurrent user sessions of the customer support team across the virtual machines to achieve high availability.

Answer

Deploy Azure Virtual Desktop using a personal host pool for the finance team, and a pooled host pool for the customer support team.
Azure Virtual Desktop supports two main types of host pools: personal host pools and pooled host pools. A personal host pool assigns a dedicated virtual machine to each user, which is ideal for workloads like the finance team's application that requires administrative privileges and a persistent state. A pooled host pool allows multiple users to share a single virtual machine's resources concurrently (multi-session), which is ideal for cost optimization for teams like customer support.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the requirements for the finance team.
The finance team requires a dedicated, persistent environment with local admin rights, which aligns with the personal host pool feature of Azure Virtual Desktop.
A personal host pool maps a single user to a single session host, preserving user state and configuration.
2
Analyze the requirements for the customer support team.
The customer support team requires shared, concurrent sessions on the same compute resources to optimize costs, which aligns with the pooled host pool feature of Azure Virtual Desktop.
A pooled host pool supports multi-session Windows client environments, allowing multiple users to run isolated sessions on the same virtual machine.
3
Evaluate the management and OS support constraints.
Confirm that multi-session Windows 11 client is supported only within Azure Virtual Desktop, and that OS patching remains a customer responsibility for the underlying IaaS session hosts.
This rules out standard VM scale sets and options that offload OS patching responsibilities to Microsoft.

Key Concept

Azure Virtual Desktop host pool types (personal vs. pooled) and deployment capabilities.
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Topics

Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop

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