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Kemp loadbalancer or Microsoft NLB?

Hey

We have just recieved 2 x KEMP loadbalancer for a web projekt.

Someone told me to use it for our RDS env. (today we have 2 x dedicated redirectors and Connection Broker)

But why - what is the advantages by using the KEMP? (we still have to use RDS connection broker)

Thanks in advance

Mike
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After much fun and games with NLB, I would always use "something else"
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I tend to use haproxy, in combination with keepalived to manage the VIP and unison to keep the config in sync (and reload haproxy on changes) across two physical or virtual boxes, after all, the loadbalancer should also be HA...

I wasn't aware of a free version of Netscaler, there is a trail, but I thought it was limited to 90 days ?
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HAProxy also has RDP load balancing and persistence capabilities

http://code.google.com/p/haproxy-docs/wiki/persist_rdp_cookie