Creating a Golden Image A golden image is a custom operating system image with all the applications and software installed and configured so that you can create a VM with the image. A golden image is like a preconfigured template for a VM; it saves you time installing and configuring applications on all the VMs…
Automated Image Creation with the Azure Image Builder Azure Image Builder (AIB) is a free, Azure-native tool that allows you to automate the image creation process, and you can still add customization with a PowerShell/Python/ Shell script. AIB uses CLI and PowerShell commands to automate image creation with Microsoft.VirtualMachineImages provider. See Figure 7-6. Figure 7-6. …
Image Management A golden image is a copy of a full VM including any attached data disks (if any). You can create VMs from an image multiple times, and a copy of the VHD from the image is used to create a new VM disk. If you have multiple images that you need to maintain…
Azure Image Gallery Limits There are limits, per subscription, for deploying resources using Azure Compute Gallery: •\ 100 galleries per subscription per region •\ 1,000 image definitions per subscription, per region •\ 10,000 image versions per subscription per region •\ 10 image version replicas per subscription per region Any disk attached to the image must…
Personal Host Pool Creation Using the Azure Portal A personal virtual desktop is a virtual machine hosted on a Remote Desktop virtualization host and assigned to a dedicated user. A personal virtual desktop is one VM per user assignment and retains all changes made by the user. The Remote Desktop (RD) Connection Broker Manager can…
Pooled Host Pool Creation Using the Azure Portal – Create and Configure Host Pools and Session Hosts
Pooled Host Pool Creation Using the Azure Portal Follow these steps: \ 1.\ Log in to portal.azure.com with an appropriate account. The login account should have contributor permission or an equivalent permission so that you can create virtual desktop resources in Azure. \ 2.\ Use the top search box to navigate to Azure Virtual Desktop.…
Automate the Creation of Azure Virtual Desktop Host and Host Pools The following sections cover creation of azure virtual desktop including session host, hostpool and hostpool config using Powershell, Azure CLI, ARM. If you are thinking about automating Azure Virtual Desktop deployment then this section will help you to understand all automation options. Personal Host…
Pooled Host Pool Creation Using PowerShell/CLI and ARM Pooled desktop is different then personal desktop and thats why you need additional detail for automation/script to create pooled hostpool. Since everything is possible with automation, we can use PowerShell and ARM in such a way that they can create pooled as well as personal desktops, and…
Assign Users to Host Pools There are multiple ways to assign the user to a Azure Virtual Desktop host pool; you can use the Azure portal, PowerShell, or the CLI to add users to the host pool. Follow these steps to add a user on the pooled or personal host pool: \ 1.\ Log in…