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Best method to cluster and load balance Terminal Servers.

Asked by Drakin030 in Windows 2003 Server, Remote Desktop/Terminal Services, Microsoft Server

Tags: Microsoft, Terminal Server, 2003 Enterprise, Windows

Our company has a single terminal server that holds about 30 users. This server is being brought to it's knee's because it's only a Dual Xeon 2.6 with 4GB of RAM.

We plan on adding more users, and this server just will not be able to handle the load. I have now begun to explorer the option of Terminal Server Clustering.

I want to make sure I have the right idea of what I am looking at, and that's where I need everyone's help here.

IN THEORY: I'd like to purchase two servers (Quad core, 16 GB of memory etc) with an iSCSI storage array, and cluster these two server and load balance.

Now I know Microsoft offers Network Load Balancing, but what that says to me is that is will balance the flow of traffic across two servers.

What I need is a solution to balance the performance on both of these servers. IE: One server is running low on available memory, and CPU is nearly capped, so I want the other to start taking requests.

Does Terminal Server Clustering work where you have two physical servers, and one logical server that everyone connects to and it just balances between the two?

I am basically looking for some insight on how I can accomplish what I need to do, and I am not sure if my understanding of TS Clustering is accurate.

How can I accomplish my goals, and what method should I use to do this?

Sorry for having this question be so vague, I'm just trying to find a solution for my problems.
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