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john_its
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Horizon Connection servers Loadbalancing/availability

Hello,

Is there a supported solution for load balancing and/or HA for the connection servers natively by VMware?

I know that kemp and F5 provide such solutions but apart that this is an additional cost it is also an additional checkbox for every update we have to do in our environment.

We tried DNS round-robin but it does not allow for service availability and we have to maually reconfigure the DNS servers for updating/rebooting the servers, and many times the clients does not find the remaining connection servers unless the clients themselves are being rebooted or clear the dns cache.

Thank you

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moto316
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I believe using the NSX load balancers are supported, but probably more complicated in an upgrade scenario compared to F5, etc. I myself spun up two linux VM's running HAProxy and Keepalived for a homegrown LB solution. Has been working great for the past 12+ months.

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