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Mark_C_14355
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May 14, 2008

Best Practices for Load Balancing Windows Terminal Server

Hi,     This is my first post, so please be gentle.     We're preparing to use our LTM to load balance between two Windows Server 2003 Terminal Servers (with more to com...
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JRahm
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May 16, 2008
That's not over-analysis at all, that's good practice. If your user base is that variable, you should weigh the options between least connections and a more advanced algorithm. If you really want to go the extra mile, you could write a C application that would do the analysis of each server for you via WMI, and update the load balancing mechanisms automagically with iControl.