Clustering or Load Balancing

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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
 
Re: Clustering or Load Balancing

Try these articles:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...7-4a37-8722-00139613a5bc/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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<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
 
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
>
 
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