Application load balancing & failover

[Guest Calen Slezash]

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]

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]

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.