Understanding Session Broker
Creating a Terminal Services environment consisting of one terminal server may work for a small business, but it has some drawbacks. First, the company can outgrow the hardware capabilities of a single server. Second, there is no built in redundancy; losing that one server means no one can work. Implementing a server farm provides a scalable and redundant application hosting platform.
A terminal server farm consists of two or more terminal servers with the same software configuration (e.g., security settings) and application sets, all represented under a single farm name so they appear to the client as a single entity. Server farms are combined with load balancing so that the workload is distributed evenly among all ...
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