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How often should AVD host pools be replaced?
We have an AVD deployment but we have limited control over it. Another team owns the tenant and has created a subscription for our team. We are responsible for creating our image, but they manage the...
I would strongly recommend that host pools be updated at least once a month. Everytime the image is updated (which would be on a monthly basis) you should ideally be re-imaging your session hosts with the latest version of that image.
It sounds like you may be just updating the actual session hosts themselves, which is never a good thing. The only exception to this rule is if you are managing the session hosts individually, which brings its own problems.
If I were you, I would try to work with that team to create a new image that is the proper Windows 11 Mult-Session image and re-deploy that image on a monthly basis with the required application and security updates; that's how most people do it.
It sounds like you may be just updating the actual session hosts themselves, which is never a good thing. The only exception to this rule is if you are managing the session hosts individually, which brings its own problems.
If I were you, I would try to work with that team to create a new image that is the proper Windows 11 Mult-Session image and re-deploy that image on a monthly basis with the required application and security updates; that's how most people do it.
virtualmanc My understanding is that the host pool resource doesn't need to be torn down with a new host pool created each time a new image is deployed. It can remain in place for as long as it is needed.
What I mean by deploying a new image is that the existing session hosts are deleted and new session hosts are created in their place. I don't mean writing the new image to the existing VMs.
Let's say I have HostPool01. It contains SessionHost01 and SessionHost02. I have a new image to deploy.
Do I delete SessionHost01 and SessionHost02 from HostPool01 then deploy the new image to SessionHost03 and SessionHost04 within HostPool01?
Or...
Do I delete SessionHost01, SessionHost02, and HostPool01. Then create HostPool02 and deploy the new image to SessionHost03 and SessionHost04 within it?
In the first scenario, will the host pool, as a separate entity (not the session hosts), degrade?
