Hello,
Setting up a lab, trying to make an RDS farm be "highly available"... but it doesn't seem right. 1st attempt, not sure what to expect (expecting too much?). My main question is, can I setup RD Web, Gateway, Broker (server 2016) using MS tools to make them HA? Ignore session host and VDI for now. Any tips on what I may have done wrong so far?
Scenario
All server roles configured for HA (trying). Say an external person logs into RD Web, connects to his office PC. Can I reboot one of the servers in the HA pairs to do maintenance and not effect the RDP session? I'm fine with a brief pause
in service (IE: screen pauses for a second or two while it switches to another node/host).
My Issue
In my lab, when I reboot one of my web/gateway pairs, the RDP session to a PC gets disconnected and cannot reconnect. HA isn't working it seems. Or is that only for Session Host sessions in a RDS collection?
My Lab Server Names/Roles
Running on PC with Server2016 Hyper-V Host
- HyperV Host Virtual Switch is private network for all VMs
- All VMs running Server2016 (except Win10 VM)
- AD (ADDS,DCHP,DNS)
- RDWebGw-01 (RD web access, gateway, NLB unicast)
- RDWebGw-02 (RD web access, gateway, NLB unicast)
- RDB-01 (RD broker)
- RDB-02 (RD broker)
- RDSH-01 (RD session host)
- RDSH-02 (RD session host)
- Win10 PC (also running sql for broker)
Another tidbit. When the RDP session to the PC is active, I can see the active session in the RD Gateway Manager on only one of the two gateways. I had thought I should be able to see it on both Gateways, but I was wrong (in my lab). Seem right to you too?