Thanks for the info. I appreciate it. I think between snapshots and vSphere¹s new FT feature I¹ll be ok. I¹ve been v-motioning it now and then with a limited user group and still haven¹t run into any problems. The timeout on a RDP connection is pretty long so even if vmotion drops a ping or two, no biggy.
Paul K. Dickson Systems Administrator Frederick County Government, IIT [email protected] 301-600-2399/x12399 From: Guillaume Bourque <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:18:24 -0400 To: "Dickson, Paul" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: HAProxy on VMWare ESX/vSphere proxying TS? Hi Paul, I'm running haproxy in a ubuntu server vm ( JEOS 8.04 ) on top of vmware server wich is over centos 64 bit. and and I have the same vm over ESX environnement. All those vm are in a NO motion configuration ;-) since we dont have the vmotion licence here how we do it. We have 2 identicals vm with haproxy on it and keepalive deamon to make sure the service Ip is always running on one vm at the time. In case vm1 goes down vm2 is ready to continue the haproxy trafic. RDP client will get dsconnecterd, but they will get auto reconnect to the same server. It is not perfect but work pretty well for us it has been running on 1 site for over 1 years with 80 users and for 2 months on a 200 users setup. Voilà I know I'm not anwsering exactly your question but since I saw nobody else i tought it would be good to know ! Guillaume. 2009/7/30 Dickson, Paul <[email protected]> > Is anyone out there using HAProxy for terminal services in an ESX/vSphere > environment? Have seen the box vmotioned and if so, have you run into any > issues? I currently have it setup in a virtual environment and would like > to keep it that way, but I can¹t have it dropping 200 TS connections if it > gets vmotioned. I also don¹t want to restrict it from being vmotioned. > I¹ve done it a couple times and haven¹t seen any issues but right now I¹m > only testing with about 10 connections. As it always happens, once > something hits production little issues creep out and I can¹t afford to have > that happen;) > > > Anyone? > > > Paul K. Dickson > Systems Administrator > Frederick County Government, IIT > [email protected] > 301-600-2399/x12399 > > > > -- Guillaume Bourque, B.Sc., consultant, infrastructures technologiques libres 514 576-7638
