We already discussed the challenge of a Virtual desktop environment, one of which is that the every desktop user is now utilizing the View Connection Server. In order to load balance, and more importantly, provide failover capability, we now will install a second copy of the View Connection Server. This chapter assumes that you already have an existing installation of a View Connection Server (Standard).
There are several ways that a replica View Connection Server can be used. The first and the most straightforward method is to use it to serve specialized desktop pools. The replica and the standard View Connection Server have different IPs, but will share the same ADAM base as well as the same basic configuration. Publishing two different IPs to two different kinds of personnel will automatically lead to "hardcoded" load balancing; meaning that one specific group of people will only ever use one View Connection Server to...