Azure Virtual Desktop Load Balancing Options: Depth-First and Breadth-First | Exam AZ-140

Is the Load Balancing Statement Correct?

Question

Read the statement below: “The scaling tool uses the depth-first load balancing option in peak hours and the breadth-first load balancing option in off-peak hours.” Is the above statement correct?

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A. B.

Correct Answer: B

The scaling tool controls the load-balancing mode of the host pool it is currently scaling.

Breadth-first load balancing mode is used by the scaling tool for both peak and off-peak hours.

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The statement appears to be incorrect because Azure Virtual Desktop does not have a built-in scaling tool that uses depth-first and breadth-first load balancing options.

Azure Virtual Desktop provides two options for scaling:

  1. Manual scaling - In this method, an administrator manually adds or removes session hosts to adjust the capacity based on the workload demands. This approach does not involve any load balancing mechanism.

  2. Autoscaling - In this method, Azure Virtual Desktop automatically adds or removes session hosts based on the configured scaling rules. The scaling rules can be based on specific performance metrics such as CPU utilization, or user session count, and can be customized according to the organization's needs.

Regarding load balancing, Azure Virtual Desktop relies on Windows Virtual Desktop's (WVD) built-in load balancing mechanism. WVD uses a Round Robin algorithm for load balancing, which distributes user sessions evenly across available session hosts.

Therefore, the statement appears to be incorrect as Azure Virtual Desktop does not have a scaling tool that uses depth-first or breadth-first load balancing options.