Re: Fault tolerant ts cluster?
On Dec 21, 2:45 am, Bart Van Vugt
<BartVanV...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> In Windows Server 2008 a new feature called Terminal Services Session Broker
> is available. This feature can be used for high availability. On the MS site
> you'll find this info about the session broker :
> It provides a simpler alternative than Microsoft Network Load Balancing for
> Terminal Services. While not limited to a specific number of servers, the
> feature provides significant value to farms of two to five servers. With TS
> Session Broker, new sessions are distributed to the least-loaded server
> within the farm--optimizing performance--and users can reconnect to an existing
> session without having to know specific information about the server where
> the session was established. IT managers can use the feature to map the
I did read that, but it sounds more like it will just reconnect a user
to the same ts server if they loose a connections. Would it recognize
that one ts server is dead and re-direct all users to the other ts
server? Why doesn't MS make terminal services cluster aware like SQL
server?
Citrix has a full TS cluster solution, why doesn't MS?
> Internet Protocol (IP) address of each terminal server to a single Domain
> Name System (DNS) entry. This configuration can also provide fault tolerance;
> if one of the farm servers is unavailable, the user will connect to the next
> least-loaded server in the farm.
>
> "Paul Jensen" wrote:
> > I know that 2003 doesn't provide fault tolerance for terminal server
> > services, but does 2008 address this?
>
> > Is there any other way to provide high availability for terminal services?
>
> > It's not load balancing I'm looking for it's high availability.
>
> > Thanks!