
Deploying Equalizer with MS Terminal Services
Deployment Guide
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Configuration Example 1:
MSTS/Equalizer Deployment without Session Services
Overview
In an MSTS server farm deployment with no Session Directory or Session Broker
services, users log into a group of MSTS servers that have the same applications
installed, and their files are usually kept on administrator-defined shared
storage. Users may leave a session behind that they want to resume later, but
there is no Session Directory (MSTS 2003) or Session Broker (MSTS 2008) server
configured.
To place Equalizer in front of such a group of independent MSTS servers, a Layer
4 cluster on Equalizer is configured with a sticky time that is equal to the
session time set on the MSTS servers. The first time a client connects to the
MSTS cluster, it is load balanced according to the policy set on the cluster. If
the client disconnects and leaves a session behind on the MSTS server, it will be
resumed the next time the client connects before the session (and sticky)
timers expire.
For example, say ClientA connects to the cluster and is load balanced to
ServerA. The client disconnects and leaves a session behind. The default
expiration time for a session on MSTS is "Never". If you leave the session timer
set to "Never", you'll probably want to set the sticky timer on the cluster to a
suitably large value (like, say, a month or year), so that the client can resume
the session they left behind whenever they get around to it. If ServerA goes
down, the session is lost; Equalizer detects the server is down and routes the
connection to another server, ServerB.
Leaving the MSTS session timer set to 'Never' and the sticky timer to a large
value means, however, that the client's connection is now going to stick to
ServerB until the server goes down or Equalizer reboots. To ensure that
Equalizer's load balancing distributes clients efficiently among the MSTS servers
behind it, the MSTS session timer can be set to a value between 1 minute and 5
days, and a corresponding value set for the cluster's sticky timer. This way,
client connections are re-load balanced at a specified interval.
Also, the max connections value on each server defined on Equalizer should be
set to the maximum connections setting on the associated real MSTS server
minus one, unless server agents are used. See Step 5, below.
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