[THIN] Re: Failover for Citrix Web Interface?
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:51:38 -0400
Our WI/License server is a VM. We make a copy of it. If one fails we turn
the other one on. You could probably somehow script the vm power on.
Jim Kenzig
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Steve Greenberg <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I would suggest you add another instance of Web Interface and license
> server to one of the other boxes. If there is a failure of your WI/LIC
> server just reconfigure the DNS to point to the new server for WI and change
> the farm license setting to the new box. With a small environment you don’t
> really need much more.
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> If failover has to be automatic probably go with MS NLB or some form of MS
> clustering.
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Peter Kung
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:30 PM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Failover for Citrix Web Interface?
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> Hello,
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> This is probably a stupid question but I just got assigned to support the
> Citrix farm in our environment so apologies in advance.
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> We’re on Xenapp 5 with Presentation Server 4.5 – which I believe are the
> latest stable releases. We have Enterprise edition.
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> We don’t have a load balancer. Right now I have 4 servers. I have 1
> running as the license server and primary web interface. 2 are hosting
> applications using the built-in load balancing/failover in Citrix. I have
> the last box hosting special applications that I would like to keep
> separate.
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> Is there a way to do some fail-over with the web interface without a load
> balancer? Looks like Citrix got rid of having the centralized web
> configuration recently.
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> Also any general suggestions/pointers on how to achieve load balancing and
> failover without use of separate load balancer would also be greatly
> appreciated.
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> Thank you.
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> Regards,
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> Peter
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