Add New Personal VMs To Existing Host Pool | WVD 2019 Release HTMD Blog

Let’s quickly find out how to add new Personal VMs to Existing Host Pool using WVD 2019 Release. If you are looking for the same feature for WVD 2020 spring release (a.k.a WVD V2), then refer to the following post Add new Session Hosts to Existing Host Pool.

The assumption here is all the other WVD setup is in place. You already have an existing personal host pool with many VMs in it!

Related Post – WVD Host Pool Creation Guide with New Template

Table of Contents

Step #1

Click on + Create a Resource

Add New Personal VMs to Existing Host Pool | WVD 2019 Release

Search the Market place with “Windows Virtual Desktop – Provision a host pool“.
Click on “Windows Virtual Desktop – Provision a host pool“.

Click on Create

Step #2 – Host Pool Selection

Let’s go through the normal configuration of Host Pool Creation from this step.
Use the Existing Host Pool Name
- Use the same Azure Region of the existing Host Pool
- Use the existing host pool name
- Select Desktop Type Personal

Step #3 – Personal VM Configuration

Configure Virtual Machines
- Total number of User – Number of VMs – 2 (because I selected desktop type as personal)
- Virtual Machine Size – 2x Standard D2s v3
- Virtual Machine Prefix:

NOTE! – DO NOT USE the same prefix name which you used previously. If you use the same prefix, it will create huge issues with your current VMs.

Step #4 – Virtual Machine Settings

Select Image Source as Gallery
Select Image OS Version – Windows 10 Enterprise
Select Disk Type – Premium SSD
Enter AD Domain Join UPN – [email protected]
Enter Admin Password
Enter Confirm Password
Enter OU Details
Select Virtual Network
Select vmSubnet

Step #5 – Windows Virtual Desktop Information

Windows Virtual Desktop tenant group name – Default Tenant Group
Enter Windows Virtual Desktop tenant name – Anoop
Enter Windows Virtual Desktop tenant RDS Owner
- Select Service principle
  - Enter Application ID
  - Enter Password
  - Enter Confirm password
  - Enter Azure AD tenant ID

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Review + Create

Let’s review and create
Once you finish the new deployment, the new personal VMs would be available for the users.

Results

Run the following PowerShell command to find out new personal VMs added to the host pool.

Get-RdsSessionHost -TenantName $tenant -HostPoolName $hostpoolname

Add New Personal VMs to Existing Host Pool | WVD 2019 Release