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Will anyone use pure Terminal Server 2003 on load-balanced blades?

Written on Aug 11 2003 10,691 views, 1 comment


by Brian Madden

I was talking with my buddy Gabe last night and he made some interesting comments about load-balanced Terminal Server 2003 environments. We were talking about the article I wrote last week discussing hardware load-balancing solutions for pure Terminal Server environments. Gabe pointed out that my old-standby design practice of "a lot of little servers" wouldn't work in a pure Terminal Server 2003 environment due to the fact that the session directory requires Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, and that costs $3,000 (after subtracting the value of the included CALs).

It's a really good point. I guess in pure Terminal Server environments, people will be better off building quad-processor servers that can each support 300-500 users instead of blades or 1U servers that can only support 50-200 users.







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Guest wrote 300-500 Users
on Tue, Jul 29 2008 5:38 AM Link To This Comment

300-500 users on a single box - thats a lot of fixing and angry users if it fails.

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