DNS Load Balancing with Session Directory

[Guest lozza]

Hi All,

 

I have currently built a Clustered Session Directory Resource group. This

seems to be working just fine i.e. the the cluster group fails over and back

and all resources come online.

 

My next step is to build and hook the TS Servers to this session directory

using either Local Policy or GPO to join them to session directory

 

Our hardware load balancer has yet to be configured and this wont be done

anytime soon i have been told.

 

So, my question is in the Interim, can I still set this up i.e. build three

TS Servers and hook them into the session directory and use DNS Based load

balancing for the time being. Obviously we wont be able prevent clients being

directed to a server if it goes down (unless manually invoked by removing the

DNS entry of a failed server)... but assuming none of the servers go down in

the short term, can sessions still be reconnected using this method of load

balancing?

 

Thanks to all

 

Lozza

[Guest Roman Porter [MSFT]]

Re: DNS Load Balancing with Session Directory

 

Yep, this would work just fine as SD does not depend any load balancers.

 

Thanks,

Roman

 

"lozza" <lozza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:A010DBD9-04A3-43EF-9B88-980B5F8FAB23@microsoft.com...

> Hi All,

>

> I have currently built a Clustered Session Directory Resource group. This

> seems to be working just fine i.e. the the cluster group fails over and

> back

> and all resources come online.

>

> My next step is to build and hook the TS Servers to this session directory

> using either Local Policy or GPO to join them to session directory

>

> Our hardware load balancer has yet to be configured and this wont be done

> anytime soon i have been told.

>

> So, my question is in the Interim, can I still set this up i.e. build

> three

> TS Servers and hook them into the session directory and use DNS Based load

> balancing for the time being. Obviously we wont be able prevent clients

> being

> directed to a server if it goes down (unless manually invoked by removing

> the

> DNS entry of a failed server)... but assuming none of the servers go down

> in

> the short term, can sessions still be reconnected using this method of

> load

> balancing?

>

> Thanks to all

>

> Lozza

[Guest lozza]

Re: DNS Load Balancing with Session Directory

 

fantastic... thanks for the quick reply... Roman, can I also ask, while on

the subject, is there a way to automatically take the specific IP of a failed

server out of DNS to provide some kind load balancing resilience if any of

the servers fail in the short term, so clients are not routed to the failed

server at all?

 

Loz.

 

"Roman Porter [MSFT]" wrote:

> Yep, this would work just fine as SD does not depend any load balancers.

>

> Thanks,

> Roman

>

> "lozza" <lozza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:A010DBD9-04A3-43EF-9B88-980B5F8FAB23@microsoft.com...

> > Hi All,

> >

> > I have currently built a Clustered Session Directory Resource group. This

> > seems to be working just fine i.e. the the cluster group fails over and

> > back

> > and all resources come online.

> >

> > My next step is to build and hook the TS Servers to this session directory

> > using either Local Policy or GPO to join them to session directory

> >

> > Our hardware load balancer has yet to be configured and this wont be done

> > anytime soon i have been told.

> >

> > So, my question is in the Interim, can I still set this up i.e. build

> > three

> > TS Servers and hook them into the session directory and use DNS Based load

> > balancing for the time being. Obviously we wont be able prevent clients

> > being

> > directed to a server if it goes down (unless manually invoked by removing

> > the

> > DNS entry of a failed server)... but assuming none of the servers go down

> > in

> > the short term, can sessions still be reconnected using this method of

> > load

> > balancing?

> >

> > Thanks to all

> >

> > Lozza

>

>