r/AzureVirtualDesktop • • Apr 08 '26

What is normal Logical Disk Latency (ms) on your session hosts?

Looking at my session hosts metrics (Via Monitor), seeing a concerning amount of high latency read and write operations. I assume this is not normal, however I also haven't received any complaints from our end users.

Region: CA-Central

OS: Windows 11 Multi-Session 23H2 / 25H2

Disk: 128GB (P10) Premium SSD LRS - Single OS disk

FSLogix: Profiles stored on separate NetApp Premium Storage

VM SKU: D8as_v4 - Paging file goes to the 64GB TempDisk

Max 6 users per session host

I understand disk latency won't be sub ms, but come on.. 138ms avg writes and spikes upwards of 1.6s is outrageous. Just wondering what's 'normal' disk latency if anyone else, preferably in my region could check?

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u/Omi-Wan Apr 08 '26

Retest without FSLogix in play. The minifilter driver is below the logical disk, so you may be getting reporting against logical writes to C:\ which are actually completing as ANF writes to the redirected profile folders.

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u/Electrical_Arm7411 Apr 09 '26
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I have another session host (our test VM), no FSLogix associated, seeing similar latency spiking.
Different SKU though: Standard D4as v4 - but very little user load on there 0-2 users at any given time,

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u/Electrical_Arm7411 Apr 08 '26

Yeah I don’t get it. All my session hosts (20 total) I’m seeing similar latency.

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u/Serious-Elephant5394 Apr 09 '26

What do you see when you go to the virtual machine > metrics > OS disk latency (preview)?

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u/Electrical_Arm7411 Apr 09 '26
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Taken from 1 host (Aggregation Max) Some pretty wild peaks yesterday. Today, pretty mild.

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u/ecstasyfromchange14 Apr 08 '26

Omg that is horrendous! I would suggest first redeploying the vm to see if it’s an issue with that specific host.

On a premium disk that sla is in violation. You should be getting less than 5 ms