Terminal Server Cluster

[BridgeRE]

I currently have 5 Dell 1950 Terminal Servers Clustered, using the built in Load Balance App. All servers use the second NIC for the Load Balance IP. The issue is, the servers are not load balancing to what I think is proper. 1 Server has 8 connections, 1 has 17, 1 has 34, 1 has 78, and another with 90 or so. What's the deal here? Is there something special that needs to be done for this cluster to really load balance?

-Marc

 

[kmcferrin]

It's not true load balancing in the sense that it assigns connections based on load levels. It's load balancing in the sense that it uses a round-robin system to equally distribute incoming connections. If you have 5 servers and 50 incoming connections, then each server will get 10 connections. But if all 10 users on server 10 log out, leaving 1 server with zero sessions and 4 servers with 10 sessions, future incoming connections will still be evenly ditributed to all 5 servers (rather than the first 10 connections being routed to the empty server).

 

[BridgeRE]

Hmm, is there a "REAL" Load Balance App available?

 

[ntinlin]

You'd need Citrix Presentation Server for that I think.

Neill