What does Azure Virtual Desktop's load balancing feature do?

The load balancing feature in Azure Virtual Desktop is primarily designed to evenly distribute user sessions across available session hosts within a host pool. This ensures that no single session host is overwhelmed with too many concurrent sessions, which could lead to performance issues. By balancing the load, organizations can maximize resource utilization, maintain responsive application performance for users, and enhance the overall user experience.

This approach allows for better management of computing resources, as it can lead to reduced latency and improved performance for users who are accessing applications hosted on Azure Virtual Desktop. A well-balanced load can also contribute to more efficient scaling strategies and facilitate better resilience within the environment, since it prevents any single point of failure.

While auto-scaling virtual machines, managing user logins, and monitoring user performance metrics are important capabilities in the Azure ecosystem, they pertain to different aspects of managing virtual desktops and user experiences rather than specifically focusing on how user sessions are distributed across session hosts.