You are designing a disaster recovery strategy for a pooled host pool. Since user profiles are stored in FSLogix and VMs are stateless, what is the most cost-effective and recommended DR strategy for the session hosts?

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Correct Answer: Deploy a new host pool in the secondary region from the same 'golden image' instead of replicating VMs with ASR.

For stateless pooled host pools, it is much more cost-effective to use Infrastructure as Code or an Azure Compute Gallery to deploy new session hosts in a secondary region during a...

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You are designing a disaster recovery strategy for a pooled host pool. Since user profiles are stored in FSLogix and VMs are stateless, what is the most cost-effective and recommended DR strategy for the session hosts?

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Correct Answer

Deploy a new host pool in the secondary region from the same 'golden image' instead of replicating VMs with ASR.

Why This Answer Is Correct

For stateless pooled host pools, it is much more cost-effective to use Infrastructure as Code or an Azure Compute Gallery to deploy new session hosts in a secondary region during a disaster, rather than paying for continuous replication of identical, disposable VMs.

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This question evaluates your knowledge of Azure Virtual Desktop Disaster Recovery — a core concept tested in Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140). Understanding Azure Virtual Desktop Disaster Recovery is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.

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You want to configure disaster recovery for a group of personal (persistent) session hosts in Azure Virtual Desktop. You need to replicate the VMs to a secondary Azure region so they can be powered on in case of a primary region disaster. Which service is recommended?

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