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How to configure Citrix Zone failover
Hi There,
Got a XenApp 6.5 setup as follows:
1 Farm
Two Zones both joined to the one farm
Each Zone has 20 servers in them
One zone is the production side
Other zone is located elsewhere and will be the DR site.
One application published and will want zone 1 servers assigned to it and zone 2 on failover
The environment will also use StoreFront 2.1 and the clients will have receiver 3.4 enterprise (we are using the legacy webservice feature in storefront 2.1). We will have 4 storefront servers 2 in each zone.
The simple way I guess to put this is we are doing an automated failover system, part of a bigger project, and what I am wanting is on failover to the DR the published application will start using the Zone 2 servers instead of the Zone One servers and that’s it.
How do you configure XenApp 6.5 (Enterprise) to do this?
(For info happy to use workergroups and policies and StoreFront config if that can help)
Thanks and help appreciated,
Steve
Got a XenApp 6.5 setup as follows:
1 Farm
Two Zones both joined to the one farm
Each Zone has 20 servers in them
One zone is the production side
Other zone is located elsewhere and will be the DR site.
One application published and will want zone 1 servers assigned to it and zone 2 on failover
The environment will also use StoreFront 2.1 and the clients will have receiver 3.4 enterprise (we are using the legacy webservice feature in storefront 2.1). We will have 4 storefront servers 2 in each zone.
The simple way I guess to put this is we are doing an automated failover system, part of a bigger project, and what I am wanting is on failover to the DR the published application will start using the Zone 2 servers instead of the Zone One servers and that’s it.
How do you configure XenApp 6.5 (Enterprise) to do this?
(For info happy to use workergroups and policies and StoreFront config if that can help)
Thanks and help appreciated,
Steve
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Hi Mutawadi,
First of all thanks so much for your quick reply.
I actually agree now that this can be done with one zone, so use to the old way before worker groups, so actually going to do that now and that will help with n/w traffic as well I believe.
Just one question the users will stay where they are in this setup, they are actually located in three sites but have a high specked WAN/LAN so can all access either site as required so daft question I can just set the filter to all clients and they will just be applied to the load balance as required - this is in the step 4 above you mention?
Sorry one more question do you have to do anything special to storefront/web interface as well or is that irrelevant for this part?
Big thanks for this,
Steve
First of all thanks so much for your quick reply.
I actually agree now that this can be done with one zone, so use to the old way before worker groups, so actually going to do that now and that will help with n/w traffic as well I believe.
Just one question the users will stay where they are in this setup, they are actually located in three sites but have a high specked WAN/LAN so can all access either site as required so daft question I can just set the filter to all clients and they will just be applied to the load balance as required - this is in the step 4 above you mention?
Sorry one more question do you have to do anything special to storefront/web interface as well or is that irrelevant for this part?
Big thanks for this,
Steve
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Hi Mutawadi,
Thanks so much for your help with this you have answered this perfect for me and to be honest so glad I can do this with one zone which i believe will be much better with N/W Traffic from what i read.
...oh and re the StoreFront i do beleive with the 2.1 version there is a lot of config options so should be easy enough to configure this. I will share this later in case it helps anyone.
Many thanks,
Steve
Thanks so much for your help with this you have answered this perfect for me and to be honest so glad I can do this with one zone which i believe will be much better with N/W Traffic from what i read.
...oh and re the StoreFront i do beleive with the 2.1 version there is a lot of config options so should be easy enough to configure this. I will share this later in case it helps anyone.
Many thanks,
Steve
Thanks to you too for your interest in sharing additional information.
2. In AppCenter, find the Load Balancing Policies and create a one. check the box Configure application connection preference based on worker group.
3. configure in the policy a prioritized list of worker groups. Place Workergroup1 with higher priority than workergroup2.
4. Filter the policy on all your users in site 1, or all the client devices in site 1; whichever is more appropriate for you.
Please note two things:
1. Load Balancing Policies are not tied to zones in XenApp 6.x. You could have equally well achieved the above with one zone only!! Workergroup1 contains 20 servers in your main site and Workergroup2 contains the 20 servers existing in the disaster recovery site.
2. You have to filter the load balancing policy; otherwise, unlke other policies, it doesn't get applied at all.