RD Connection Broker High Availability in Windows Server 2012

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MS Discussions Acct — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:34:17 GMT

What does 'full permission' mean? SA? DBO?

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MS Discussions Acct — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:30:05 GMT

Munindra, based on your answer about DNS RR TTL, I think you are confirming what we fear...if a server goes down and still has an A record in DNS, clients will potentially call a broker that is not there and the connection will fail. Is that correct?

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Ryan Lance — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:05:05 GMT

in 2008 r2 I have 2 web access\gateway servers using NLB for HA. I have clustered my RD Connection Broker servers (2 of them) and then I have several session hosts. I had to separate the CB role and the WA role because you can't have NLB and Failover cluster manager on the same nodes (not supported).

In 2012, since RD CB does not depend on FCM can I consolidate those roles (Web Access and Connection Broker)onto two nodes instead of 4 while keeping them HA?

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Jake_D423 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:53:57 GMT

Excellent Article! Thanks Team!

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Jingyuan Li (MSFT) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:26:24 GMT

You can select RDVHs to add by their server names (not the cluster name), just as you would normally do when creating a vitual machine-based desktop deployment.

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Phonix3000 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:44:28 GMT

I have a failover hyperv 2012 cluster. Now a would to add the rdsvh. Should i add in the wizzard <node1> and <node2> or add <clustername> and the wizzard install the role on each node and configure the environment automatically to use not only the single rdsvh but also all cluster nodes.

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Jingyuan Li (MSFT) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:00:20 GMT

You need to create a failover cluster with all the servers you plan to install RDVH roles.

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Phonix3000 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:29:17 GMT

I found also the answer in the Teched "Windows Server 2012 VDI/RDS Infrastructure and Management". Also in a RDS 2008R2 environment you can design a HA scenario with a HyperV Cluster. In the setup for RDVH 2012 should i add every host of the cluster or the cluster name and the wizzard complete the setup automatically with all cluster nodes?

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Jingyuan Li (MSFT) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:52:30 GMT

Yes, Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RDVH) in WS2012 supports Hyper-V failover clustering, it is definitely possible to put RDVHs in a failover culster and make virtual machines highly available as well. Personally, I've not tried the same scenario with WS2008 R2, so I don't know the answer for WS2008 R2.

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Phonix3000 — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:37:55 GMT

Thank you Jingyuan Li. The PS cmdlet works fine. A have another question. I would to expand the RDS environment for a VDI szenario. The solution should be also high availability. Can i use for Remote Desktop Virtualization Host a HyperV 2012 or 2008R2 Cluster? I can´t find any information about it in the technet.