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Azure scale sets of IaaS RDS farm

Hi all,
10,000 user RDS farm on-premise - am currently planning to scale out to Azure. Yes, i know WVD would be better - but the major app vendor refuses to support it - so our hands our tied - at least for now.

Anyway, I would like to auto-scale up/down the VM's in use - but the counters for connected RDS sessions don't seem to be one of the available metrics.

I have seen posts such as this - https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/85282f9d-f34d-4f34-b5b9-eaf13e1a27ba/machines-in-azure-scale-set-as-rds-session-hosts?forum=winserverTS - that say that its simply not a good fit for RDS... however, that was 2017.... 4 years have past since then - and im wondering if im missing some other funky way of achieving the result ? or if its still simply not a good fit.

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@BenWosjke-0694 I cannot think of a good way to do this besides keeping track of the sessions in a custom application on your end, and then programmatically sending the scale requests to Azure based upon the load / demand.

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Yer - thats the path im going to go down - in the absence of a better solution.... just wanted to see/check if anyone else had a better idea.

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