Windows NT Application load balancing & failover

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Calen Slezash

Hello group:

I would like to find out what it would take in order to load balance
applications on a Windows 2003 Server Ent. Edition/SQL Server 2000 server
farm. I recall that this was not possible a couple of years ago, unless one
looked at a Citrix solution. I would like users' applications to fail-over
to either node in the event that they lose connection to one of the nodes.

Another issue is the creation of new user profiles. Currently I am manually
setting up a profile twice (once on each server node). I would like to find
out if there is a way to create a profile once and have it replicate to all
nodes in the farm.

Any help or ideas would be most welcome!


Thanks in advance.
 
With Terminal Servers we load balance, but there is no failover like you have
with SQL or Exchange Clusters. Terminal Servers are load balanced with
Citrix Presentation Server, Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite or a
dedicated load balancer. If one of the Terminal Servers fail, when users
logon again they get directed to one of the remaining Terminal Servers, so
there's no active/passive setup.

Most companies use Roaming TS Profiles with Folder redirection, or Flex
Profiles so they don't have to maintain profiles on each server.

I'd be happy to discuss this with you offline if you'd like.

http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Configure-Folder-Redirection.html

--
Patrick C. Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
Provision Networks VIP
Citrix Technology Professional
President - Session Computing Solutions, LLC
http://www.sessioncomputing.com



"Calen Slezash" wrote:

> Hello group:
>
> I would like to find out what it would take in order to load balance
> applications on a Windows 2003 Server Ent. Edition/SQL Server 2000 server
> farm. I recall that this was not possible a couple of years ago, unless one
> looked at a Citrix solution. I would like users' applications to fail-over
> to either node in the event that they lose connection to one of the nodes.
>
> Another issue is the creation of new user profiles. Currently I am manually
> setting up a profile twice (once on each server node). I would like to find
> out if there is a way to create a profile once and have it replicate to all
> nodes in the farm.
>
> Any help or ideas would be most welcome!
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
 
Session failover unfortunately does not exist (yet?). If you are
talking about "real" load balancing, look at Citrix or other third
party solutions.

If you want profiles independent of a specific server either use
roaming profiles or have a look at third-party profile solutions.

I hope this helps.

Helge

On 23 Aug., 02:04, "Calen Slezash" <cslez...@h0tmail.c0m> wrote:
> Hello group:
>
> I would like to find out what it would take in order to load balance
> applications on a Windows 2003 Server Ent. Edition/SQL Server 2000 server
> farm. I recall that this was not possible a couple of years ago, unless one
> looked at a Citrix solution. I would like users' applications to fail-over
> to either node in the event that they lose connection to one of the nodes.
>
> Another issue is the creation of new user profiles. Currently I am manually
> setting up a profile twice (once on each server node). I would like to find
> out if there is a way to create a profile once and have it replicate to all
> nodes in the farm.
>
> Any help or ideas would be most welcome!
>
> Thanks in advance.
 
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