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VMware Horizon View High Availability

By : Andrew Alloway
Book Image

VMware Horizon View High Availability

By: Andrew Alloway

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware Horizon View High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Remote Desktop Services pools


Remote Desktop Services (RDS) pools are pools where the remote session or application is hosted on a Windows remote desktop server. The application or remote session is run under the users' credentials. Usually, all the user data is stored locally on the remote desktop server but can also be stored remotely using roaming profiles or View persona profiles. Typical uses of RDS are for migrating users off legacy RDS environments, hosting applications, and providing access to troublesome applications or applications with large memory footprints.

The Windows remote desktop server can be either a VM or a standalone physical host. It can be combined with Windows clustering technology to provide scalability and high availability. You can also deploy a load balancer solution to manage connections between multiple Windows remote desktop servers.

Remote desktop services pool HA considerations

Remote desktop services HA revolves around protecting individual RDS VMs or provisioning...