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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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Ryan_Korock_46
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May 16, 2008
Mark, I think your concern is definately valid.

 

 

F5 provides a few methods for load balancing based on server metrics, such as available CPU, memory, disk space, etc.... The two easiest that come to mind is having the BIG-IP collect this data from your servers via SNMP, or using F5's WMI .dll for collection.

 

 

Both methods can be used to pull server metrics and load balance based upon the results.

 

 

Here is some documentation on how to set this up.

 

Implementing monitors for Dynamic Ratio load balancing

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip9_4config/BIGIP_LTM_CONFIG_GD_9_4-17-1.html?sr=755960