help. $20k budget to build a redundant system

[Guest Aaron]

I have a client running a single Windows 2003 terminal server. This client;

 

 

 

A) Has lots of money.

 

B) Will have a heart attack if his terminal server is down for more than one

minute.

 

C) Is willing to spend $20,000 to make it redundant somehow.

 

 

 

I'd rather NOT use Citrix if possible. I really only want to publish

desktops, not single applications. I'd like to integrate VMware into the

scenario somehow.

 

 

 

Let's hear the ideas and thoughts. I'm a skilled consultant. There isn't

much that I can't do, I just want the thoughts of other people on this one,

as the budget is so high. I could easily ask for 35 or 40k if it laid out

infrastructure for future growth, which is why I was hoping to integrate

VMware and some shared storage.

 

 

 

Thanks!

[Guest Christa Anderson [MSFT]]

Re: help. $20k budget to build a redundant system

 

Hi, Aaron,

 

It would help people to know the exact requirements. Will the customer be

unhappy if the terminal server is unavailable, or if the session someone is

connected to ends? One answer requires a redundant terminal server and

grouping the two servers into a farm, and the other requires session

failover--a capability that Terminal Services does not support. What were

you hoping to accomplish with virtual machines?

 

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Regards,

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"Aaron" <aaron@microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I have a client running a single Windows 2003 terminal server. This client;

>

>

>

> A) Has lots of money.

>

> B) Will have a heart attack if his terminal server is down for more than

> one minute.

>

> C) Is willing to spend $20,000 to make it redundant somehow.

>

>

>

> I'd rather NOT use Citrix if possible. I really only want to publish

> desktops, not single applications. I'd like to integrate VMware into the

> scenario somehow.

>

>

>

> Let's hear the ideas and thoughts. I'm a skilled consultant. There isn't

> much that I can't do, I just want the thoughts of other people on this

> one, as the budget is so high. I could easily ask for 35 or 40k if it laid

> out infrastructure for future growth, which is why I was hoping to

> integrate VMware and some shared storage.

>

>

>

> Thanks!

>

>