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mik22_64549
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NimbostratusF5 and VMWare View Broker
We are using F5 Big IP LTM 2400 running version 9.4.4 and have followed the configurations from the guide “Deploying F5 with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure” with the exception of using SSL we used HTTP only (so no SSL certificates or iRule). The F5 seems to do some load balancing but once the user is directed and authenticated with the broker the F5 drops out of the loop. What we would like to do is have F5 manage the connection and be able to switch the session to the other broker if one should die without the user having to reconnect. We are not positive if it is possible and have not seen anything to say it isn’t. Has anyone accomplished what we are trying to do or know if or how it can be accomplished?
- Sounds like you need to configure the "External URL" setting on each View broker to be the DNS name associated with your virtual server on the LTM. Once you have the external URL setup on the brokers you'll also need to use something along the lines of simple/source address persistence if you're not doing the ssl offload because LTM won't be able to see the session IDs and enter them in the persistence table. View brokers and security servers don't share session state, so if one fails and the connection is sent to the next available broker then the user will likely have to login again and open a new desktop connection. Depending on how you have your View deployment configured your user could be able to reconnect to the desktop VM and then resume the task where he or she left off when the connection closed. Have a look at page 36 of the View admin guide for some more details on the external URL. You can find the docs here http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html .
