Windows NT Transition from single to cluster?

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Brian MXP

Howdy-

Is there any way to move from a current, single production Terminal Server to something
like a two server cluster? I'd like to have some more fault tolerance and the ability to
independently reboot the systems without causing problems for users... And NLB seems like
it only handles network loads and not CPU or memory...

TIA,
BM
 
Terminal Services is not cluster aware.

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Brian MXP wrote:
> Howdy-
>
> Is there any way to move from a current, single production Terminal
> Server to something like a two server cluster? I'd like to have some
> more fault tolerance and the ability to independently reboot the systems
> without causing problems for users... And NLB seems like it only
> handles network loads and not CPU or memory...
>
> TIA,
> BM
 
You need a solution that implements "real" load balancing like Citrix
Presentation Server. For a small environment Citrix Access Essentials
might just be the right thing:

http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Oh-wow-Citrix-Access-Essentials-is-actually-cool-now

Other vendors like Ericom surely have similar offerings.

I hope this helps.

Helge

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On 14 Aug., 17:25, Brian MXP <br...@nospam.broad.mit.edu> wrote:
> Howdy-
>
> Is there any way to move from a current, single production Terminal Server to something
> like a two server cluster? I'd like to have some more fault tolerance and the ability to
> independently reboot the systems without causing problems for users... And NLB seems like
> it only handles network loads and not CPU or memory...
>
> TIA,
> BM
 
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