We currently have a View environment for up to 1100 users in our primary datacentre, using CISCO hardware content switches to load balance on a single DNS name to assign users.
We are in the process of implementing a second completely independent View environment in our backup datacentre with a capacity of ~300 users. Due to cost it has been stipulated that this environment must be "live", provisioning extra users and not simply a DR site.
This being the case we'd like some way to balance the load across the two View environments. Under the current arrangement we can only balance by number of connections to a DNS name for each site (we couldn't guarantee that users would receive back the same desktop after a disconnect), therefore we'll be limited to using a separate DNS name for each site, running specific desktop user pools on specific sites and then using domain policy to amend the View Client on the user desktop accordingly:
The Network team have advised that they will be moving load balancing to CISCO ACE - I know that F5 products are both View and AD aware and can therefore load balance across instances based on pool entitelment - is there a similar product from CISCO? I couldn't find mcuh documentation dealing with multiple View instances from Cisco on the matter. If not I'm thinking to recommend budget allocation to move to F5 in the future?
I would reccomend trialling the F5 functionality by purchasing a trial licence first 160£.
We are in the process of doing this at the moment.
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