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nettech1
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DNS Round Robin connection servers

Hi,

Came across an old post showing round robin DNS as an option for connection servers. Is this still supported ? Wondering if we should stay away from this option and go with a real load balancer instead?

https://vmfocus.com/2014/01/14/load-balancing-horizon-view-design/

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sjesse
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You really should open a support ticket and ask that way you have a record of the response in general for if things are supported or not. That said, for the connection servers, it should be fine, but it is far from optimal. Without a load balancer, you can't use the more optimal least connection balancing method, and if a host goes down unexpectedly or even for maintenance, you'll still hit those boxes unless you pull the dns entry and those reaches all the clients.

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