Which feature in Azure Virtual Desktop manages user sessions?

Session management is the feature in Azure Virtual Desktop that specifically focuses on managing user sessions. This includes monitoring active sessions, controlling access, and ensuring session reliability. It plays a crucial role in providing a seamless user experience by allowing administrators to manage how users connect to their virtual desktops, dictate session behavior, and troubleshoot session issues.

By employing effective session management, administrators can optimize the performance of virtual desktop sessions by allocating resources appropriately and maintaining sessions even during high-demand periods. It encompasses various tasks such as session reconnection, session termination, and administrating session limits, making it essential for providing effective desktop-as-a-service solutions.

In contrast, load balancing primarily focuses on distributing user connections evenly across available virtual machines to enhance performance and efficiency, but it does not handle the specific aspects of session management. A content delivery network is unrelated to managing user sessions as it is designed to accelerate the delivery of web content and applications over the internet. Backup and recovery involves ensuring that data and applications are secured and can be restored in case of loss, and it does not pertain directly to managing live user sessions.