Comments on: Load balancing Windows Terminal Server – HAProxy and RDP Cookies or Microsoft Connection Broker http://blog.loadbalancer.org/load-balancing-windows-terminal-server-%e2%80%93-haproxy-and-rdp-cookies/ When a single point of failure is not an option Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Shyam http://blog.loadbalancer.org/load-balancing-windows-terminal-server-%e2%80%93-haproxy-and-rdp-cookies/comment-page-1/#comment-901 Shyam Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:47:34 +0000 http://blog.loadbalancer.org/?p=296#comment-901 Hi Guys I have tried using haproxy for rdp with Win Xp. As you know win xp allows only one connection. I am using HAproxy and above configuration. when i try connecting to xp through my haproxy server it does the connection perfectly, but the problems are 1) No persistence 2) Existing connection gets disconnected if someone else tries to get connected to the same machine.[XP problem] How do i overcome these issues. All help greatly appreciated. Thanks Shyam Hi Guys

I have tried using haproxy for rdp with Win Xp. As you know win xp allows only one connection. I am using HAproxy and above configuration. when i try connecting to xp through my haproxy server it does the connection perfectly, but the problems are
1) No persistence
2) Existing connection gets disconnected if someone else tries to get connected to the same machine.[XP problem]

How do i overcome these issues.
All help greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Shyam

]]> By: Malcolm Turnbull http://blog.loadbalancer.org/load-balancing-windows-terminal-server-%e2%80%93-haproxy-and-rdp-cookies/comment-page-1/#comment-894 Malcolm Turnbull Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:42:36 +0000 http://blog.loadbalancer.org/?p=296#comment-894 Terry, Yes long time no talk.. I've just got back from a cruise round New Zealand with the family (It was fantastic). At the moment XEN proprietary or open source has very little traction with paying customers. But yes long term we are planning a whole host of virtualized load balancers like our current VMWare appliance (similar idea to Netscalers) i.e. an exact copy of our hardware OS/Software Stack runing on XEN/Microsoft etc. We have an Amazon EC2 platform close to release which relies heavily on HAProxy (as a lot of the layer 4 technology won't work in the Amazon cloud). We also have several projects with ISPs integrating our load balancer to their various control panels. Long term I think it would be great for the market if Google and Amazon came together to offer an <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud" rel="nofollow">open source cloud standard</a> that would provide a platform with enough users to make commercial development of products a worthwhile effort; production cost wise (we've only had 3 serious XEN enquires but loads of VMWare sales...). Our EC2 cloud development has taken over almost a year and that starts getting expensive! Maybe we should look at outsourcing all of our development to India? Terry,
Yes long time no talk.. I’ve just got back from a cruise round New Zealand with the family (It was fantastic).

At the moment XEN proprietary or open source has very little traction with paying customers. But yes long term we are planning a whole host of virtualized load balancers like our current VMWare appliance (similar idea to Netscalers) i.e. an exact copy of our hardware OS/Software Stack runing on XEN/Microsoft etc. We have an Amazon EC2 platform close to release which relies heavily on HAProxy (as a lot of the layer 4 technology won’t work in the Amazon cloud). We also have several projects with ISPs integrating our load balancer to their various control panels.

Long term I think it would be great for the market if Google and Amazon came together to offer an open source cloud standard that would provide a platform with enough users to make commercial development of products a worthwhile effort; production cost wise (we’ve only had 3 serious XEN enquires but loads of VMWare sales…).

Our EC2 cloud development has taken over almost a year and that starts getting expensive! Maybe we should look at outsourcing all of our development to India?

]]> By: Terry Vercoe http://blog.loadbalancer.org/load-balancing-windows-terminal-server-%e2%80%93-haproxy-and-rdp-cookies/comment-page-1/#comment-893 Terry Vercoe Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:42:56 +0000 http://blog.loadbalancer.org/?p=296#comment-893 Hi Malcom It is Terry from New Zealand, (It’s been a few years since we last talked). I think it might be of interest to evaluate using this type of perpetual trial model (1Mb) and then pay as you grow for your excellent VSA product. It would gain traction with certain cloud providers. http://jariangibson.com/2009/09/18/netscaler-vpx-express-is-a-must-for-all-xenserver-environments/ http://jariangibson.com/2009/12/01/choosing-a-netscaler-hardware-appliance-or-virtual-appliance/ Regards Terry Vercoe Hi Malcom

It is Terry from New Zealand, (It’s been a few years since we last talked).

I think it might be of interest to evaluate using this type of perpetual trial model (1Mb) and then pay as you grow for your excellent VSA product.

It would gain traction with certain cloud providers.

http://jariangibson.com/2009/09/18/netscaler-vpx-express-is-a-must-for-all-xenserver-environments/

http://jariangibson.com/2009/12/01/choosing-a-netscaler-hardware-appliance-or-virtual-appliance/

Regards

Terry Vercoe

]]> By: Malcolm http://blog.loadbalancer.org/load-balancing-windows-terminal-server-%e2%80%93-haproxy-and-rdp-cookies/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Malcolm Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:11:56 +0000 http://blog.loadbalancer.org/?p=296#comment-874 It is great news that HAProxy now supports RDP Cookies! Now all it really needs for full functionality is some kind of CPU idle feedback method from the real servers. Enabling HAProxy to distribute new clients to the least loaded servers, this has been talked about on the HAProxy mailing list quite a lot so no doubt it will be on the way soon. We have a <a href="http://www.loadbalancer.org/download/agent/Windows/LBCPUMonInstallation.msi" rel="nofollow">Windows feedback service installer</a> that responds to telnet on port 6666 with the CPU idle figure (0-100), I'd be happy to get the programmer to open source it under the GPL if anyone wants to use it? It is great news that HAProxy now supports RDP Cookies! Now all it really needs for full functionality is some kind of CPU idle feedback method from the real servers. Enabling HAProxy to distribute new clients to the least loaded servers, this has been talked about on the HAProxy mailing list quite a lot so no doubt it will be on the way soon.
We have a Windows feedback service installer that responds to telnet on port 6666 with the CPU idle figure (0-100), I’d be happy to get the programmer to open source it under the GPL if anyone wants to use it?

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