Guest Calen Slezash Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Hello group: I would like to find out what it would take in order to load balance applications on a Windows 2003 Server Ent. Edition/SQL Server 2000 server farm. I recall that this was not possible a couple of years ago, unless one looked at a Citrix solution. I would like users' applications to fail-over to either node in the event that they lose connection to one of the nodes. Another issue is the creation of new user profiles. Currently I am manually setting up a profile twice (once on each server node). I would like to find out if there is a way to create a profile once and have it replicate to all nodes in the farm. Any help or ideas would be most welcome! Thanks in advance.
Guest Patrick Rouse Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 RE: Application load balancing & failover With Terminal Servers we load balance, but there is no failover like you have with SQL or Exchange Clusters. Terminal Servers are load balanced with Citrix Presentation Server, Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite or a dedicated load balancer. If one of the Terminal Servers fail, when users logon again they get directed to one of the remaining Terminal Servers, so there's no active/passive setup. Most companies use Roaming TS Profiles with Folder redirection, or Flex Profiles so they don't have to maintain profiles on each server. I'd be happy to discuss this with you offline if you'd like. http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Configure-Folder-Redirection.html -- Patrick C. Rouse Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server Provision Networks VIP Citrix Technology Professional President - Session Computing Solutions, LLC http://www.sessioncomputing.com "Calen Slezash" wrote: > Hello group: > > I would like to find out what it would take in order to load balance > applications on a Windows 2003 Server Ent. Edition/SQL Server 2000 server > farm. I recall that this was not possible a couple of years ago, unless one > looked at a Citrix solution. I would like users' applications to fail-over > to either node in the event that they lose connection to one of the nodes. > > Another issue is the creation of new user profiles. Currently I am manually > setting up a profile twice (once on each server node). I would like to find > out if there is a way to create a profile once and have it replicate to all > nodes in the farm. > > Any help or ideas would be most welcome! > > > Thanks in advance. > > >
Guest Helge Klein Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Re: Application load balancing & failover Session failover unfortunately does not exist (yet?). If you are talking about "real" load balancing, look at Citrix or other third party solutions. If you want profiles independent of a specific server either use roaming profiles or have a look at third-party profile solutions. I hope this helps. Helge On 23 Aug., 02:04, "Calen Slezash" <cslez...@h0tmail.c0m> wrote: > Hello group: > > I would like to find out what it would take in order to load balance > applications on a Windows 2003 Server Ent. Edition/SQL Server 2000 server > farm. I recall that this was not possible a couple of years ago, unless one > looked at a Citrix solution. I would like users' applications to fail-over > to either node in the event that they lose connection to one of the nodes. > > Another issue is the creation of new user profiles. Currently I am manually > setting up a profile twice (once on each server node). I would like to find > out if there is a way to create a profile once and have it replicate to all > nodes in the farm. > > Any help or ideas would be most welcome! > > Thanks in advance.
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