Clustering or Load Balancing

[Guest shaskell@posey.com]

I setup a TS with 10 license's so far. i want to setup a redundant TS

server before i expand with too many users. the server is 03 standard

with sp2. clients are totally diskless using wtware. i am pretty new

to the ts part of windows and am really not sure how to go about

setting up high availability for ts. any pointers, ie. articles, step

by steps etc would be great.

 

TIA and enjoy your day

[Guest Priya Raghavan [MSFT]]

Re: Clustering or Load Balancing

 

Try these articles:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/6/2/8624174c-8587-4a37-8722-00139613a5bc/SessionDirectory.doc

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294926

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810589

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301926

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555741

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840695

 

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Priya.

 

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<shaskell@posey.com> wrote in message

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>I setup a TS with 10 license's so far. i want to setup a redundant TS

> server before i expand with too many users. the server is 03 standard

> with sp2. clients are totally diskless using wtware. i am pretty new

> to the ts part of windows and am really not sure how to go about

> setting up high availability for ts. any pointers, ie. articles, step

> by steps etc would be great.

>

> TIA and enjoy your day

[Guest Patrick Rouse]

RE: Clustering or Load Balancing

 

Typically if you've scaled up to the point where you need a second server to

handle your peak user load, you actually need three servers to have

redundancy. This is because if one of the two servers were to fail, and were

load balanced, you'd overload the remaining server node when users try to

logon.

 

Microsoft NLB is not a Terminal Server Load Balancing Solution, and why

Microsoft enhanced Session Directory in Server 2008 to actually load balance

based upon a terminal server metric, terminal services sessions.

 

If you're using 2003 TS, and don't plan to upgrade to 2008 as soon as it's

released, I'd recommend that you look at Virtual Access Suite, Citrix

Presentation Server (Advanced or Enterprise), Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect or

2X, all of which can load balance Terminal Servers, plus a lot of other

features.

 

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Patrick C. Rouse

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

SE, West Coast USA & Canada

Quest Software, Provision Networks Division

Virtual Client Solutions

http://www.provisionnetworks.com

 

 

"shaskell@posey.com" wrote:

> I setup a TS with 10 license's so far. i want to setup a redundant TS

> server before i expand with too many users. the server is 03 standard

> with sp2. clients are totally diskless using wtware. i am pretty new

> to the ts part of windows and am really not sure how to go about

> setting up high availability for ts. any pointers, ie. articles, step

> by steps etc would be great.

>

> TIA and enjoy your day

>