[THIN] Re: Dumb Question about Load balancing
- From: "Andrew Rogers" <Andrew.Rogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:52:04 +0100
How cheap is cheap? We're getting XPs soon, and im concerned about outgrowing
it in the future :)
Andrew
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>>> Claudio.Rodrigues@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 27/08/04 03:16:34 >>>
If you hit the maximum capacity in a TS server, you should be able to simply
add another server to your environment, configured identically, and load
balance them using many different approaches. The cheapest one is the old
and good DNS Round Robin.
If you need something smarter, WTSGateway. Resource based load balancing
with reconnection capabilities, WTSGateway Pro and if you are using Windows
2000 Advanced Server or Windows 2003 Server, NLB (not resource based
though).
Does not matter if you have Citrix or Tarantella or any other TS add-on. As
soon as you hit the max on your server you must add another one and load
balance them. The core principle remains the same no matter the icing on the
cake you choose.
And a question for the list: would be interesting to have a cheap product
that would allow you to load balance (resource based of course) Citrix
MetaFrame XPs so small companies using it would be able to add more servers
to the farm without paying all the extra money for XPa?
If there is demand we can release it next week. :-)
Cláudio Rodrigues
Microsoft MVP
Windows Technologies - Terminal Services
http://www.terminal-services.net
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Ron Jameson
Sent: August 26, 2004 7:12 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Dumb Question about Load balancing
It's late, been a long day - but how to you LB a stressed out single
terminal server when users login to the TS and work completely in the
session all day (i.e. non-published apps) and the load increases as the
users run applications that are intense? The only way a LB would work
here is if they logout/in again and get redirected to a different server
due to the first being loaded? I ask this before I test Claudio's
Gateway pro but I have a feeling in order to LB - you need to convert
your whole setup to published applications with a small 2+ server farm.
What are companies doing that have an entire business run on TS but then
outgrow it's capacity? Do they undo all their work and move to
published apps (citrix or tarantella) or do they just install a second
TS and change the RDP shortcut on half the company to go to a different
TS? We are not talking about 500+ users but only under 50 but
applications that beat the TS.
Just curious for we have this setup where the desktop is tuned and
controlled by GPO & scripts so I do not want to switch the setup to have
applications published to a local desktop. Or do you/can you publish to
a TS session desktop thus maintaining the controlled TS session? I
think this would be as if a TS session on TS1 launches a published app
and if TS1 is ok, it runs it local but if it is overloaded - it launches
to TS2.
Thoughts?
Ron Jameson
Hamlin Technologies
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