Windows Server® 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit

Adding Capacity

If the experiment with Terminal Services goes well, at some point you’ll find that demand is outstripping what the terminal servers can supply. In this section, we’ll talk about how you can keep tabs on the increasing load on the terminal servers at key times, and we’ll discuss virtualization options that let you keep spare capacity on hand.

Measuring Server Stress

Before adding capacity, you need to know how much stress the servers are under. One way to determine this is to measure connections in two contexts: the rate of new connections added during logon times and the number of connections each terminal server sustains at a time when you’d expect users to be already logged on and working. Both numbers are important for different ...