A standard pooled environment already has a fixed fleet of provisioned hosts. The requirement is to start and deallocate those existing hosts on a business-hours schedule, without creating or deleting VMs. Which approach matches?

✓ Correct answer

• Power-management autoscale with the documented permissions and schedule.

Choose power-management scaling for scheduled power control of an existing fleet. Configure its prerequisites and avoid competing automation. Option explanations: A. Two independent scalers simultaneously controlling the same host states.: Competing controllers can undo each other’s decisions and undermine the requested predictable behavior. B. Power-management autoscale with the documented permissions and schedule.: This method controls the power state of existing hosts. C. Dynamic autoscale solely to power off existing standard hosts.: Dynamic scaling creates/deletes hosts through its supported session host configuration workflow. D. Start VM on Connect alone as a complete shutdown schedule.: Start VM on Connect starts on demand and does not supply the requested scheduled shutdown policy. Sources: Create a scaling plan — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/autoscale-create-assign-scaling-plan; Host pool management approaches — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/host-pool-management-approaches

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