SCENARIO: Deploy highly available 2008 R2 Connection Broker. There are different ways to do this, but in our scenario, we will cluster the connection broker server, create a shared cluster service, and use NLB to balance the initial connection load on the session hosts.
PREREQUISITES:
SESSION HOSTS
2 Server 2008 R2 Servers with Session Host Roll installed
Session Host servers should have two NIC's (One for RDP and the other for NLB)
CONNECTION BROKERS
2 Server 2008 R2 servers with Connection Broker Roll installed.
Ensure that all servers are members of the same domain.
Ensure that all servers are able to communicate with each other (work out subnet / VLAN issues if any exist)
STEPS OVERVIEW
1. Install Failover Cluster feature on Connection Brokers
2. Create drive / folder for quorum drive (this is for failover clustering and in this example we will use a folder)
3. Create share cluster service.
4. Install NLB on Session Hosts.
5. Configure NLB on Session Hosts.
6. Create Session Host Farm.
7. Create appropriate DNS entries.
