The 2X Client only has to be installed when using “direct connect mode” (see below)īefore we get on with installing all the components, it’s important to understand that the 2X LoadBalancer can operate in three modes: The 2X Client is installed on the machine connecting to the load balanced group of Terminal Servers. The 2X LoadBalancer Agent is an agent you install on your Terminal Servers so that the 2X LoadBalancer server can check the load on the Terminal Server to make load balancing decisions. This is the software that does the actual Load Balancing. The 2X LoadBalancer component is the main component. The 2X LoadBalancer architecture basically consists of three components: One server acted as the “gateway” and the two remaining servers acted as the Terminal Servers. My review of 2X LoadBalancer was performed with three Windows 2000 Server systems. In this review I will take a look at 2X LoadBalancer. Disconnected Session Reconnection Support.2X LoadBalancer has the following features: The new product is a result of the merger between 2X and. 2X LoadBalancer was formally known as WTSGateway Pro by. In Microsoft Network Load Balancing, load calculations are based solely on network load.ĢX LoadBalancer is 2X’s implementation of Load Balancing. Microsoft, with the introduction of Windows Server 2003, included the possibility to load balance across Terminal Servers by using Microsoft Network Load Balancing.
On the softer side, Citrix is particularly well-known for the Load Balancing capabilities of their product Presentation Server (only available on “advanced and enterprise” editions). A well-known hardware solution for load balancing is F5 Network’s Big IP. There are several vendors who have implemented load balancing in their products. The groups are called “Silos” or “LMGs” (Load Managed Groups). In Server Based Computing environments this distribution mechanism is called Load Balancing or Load Management.
Often this distribution mechanism also provides some kind of fault tolerance. Usually user requests to the service of a group are somehow distrubuted evenly over the servers in that group. In Server Based Computing environments such a service could be hosting a specific application or a specific desktop. The main reason for creating these groups is because they all offer the exact same service. In modern IT environments, servers are often grouped together.
Product: 2X LoadBalancer for Terminal Services / Citrix
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