{"id":14593,"date":"2021-04-22T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/?p=14593"},"modified":"2024-01-19T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:12:37","slug":"avd-deployment-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/avd-deployment-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Azure Instance Types for Microsoft AVD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an earlier blog,\u00a0 we had discussed what is Microsoft AVD – Azure Virtual Desktop<\/a>\u00a0and why it is gaining popularity. In this blog, we present various community and vendor resources that can help you choose the right Azure<\/a> instances for your Microsoft AVD deployment.<\/p>\n

Updates: This blog is updated as the community releases new material.<\/em><\/p>\n

Update Jan 2024:<\/em> In October 2023, Microsoft themselves published some advice on how to choose the best instance for use when running session host virtual machines (VM) on Remote Desktop Services or Azure Virtual Desktop, see: Session host virtual machine sizing guidelines for Azure Virtual Desktop and Remote Desktop Services | Microsoft Learn<\/a>. There’s a lot of useful advice but their definition of “Heavy” user workloads as including PowerPoint and Outlook do direct users towards instances such as the D8s_v5 and D8s_v4 as a minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In a recent survey of 1,050 digital workspace professionals, eG Innovations and xenappblog reported that 34% of respondents were already using Microsoft AVD<\/a>. AVD was also the most popular DaaS service in the cloud.<\/div>\n
Click here to see the results of this survey <\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/span>Key Questions Regarding AVD Deployment on Azure<\/span><\/h2>\n

Here, at eG Innovations, we offer a wealth of monitoring and simulation tools to allow you to monitor what real users are experiencing when accessing Microsoft AVD. You can also use our tools to benchmark user experience when using different configurations for AVD. There are a vast array of different Azure instances, storage, and networking options available to administrators.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Microsoft AVD is a relatively new product. Hence, many administrators are looking for data points and recommendations from the community on what they can expect when using different Azure instances and methodologies they can use to baseline and sanity-check configuration choices.<\/p>\n

Digital workspace administrators want to know:<\/p>\n