You are an Enterprise administrator for contoso.com. The corporate network of the company consists of a single Active Directory domain. All the servers in the domain run Windows Server 2008 and all client computers run Windows Vista.
The network contains five servers on which Terminal Services role is installed. You have been assigned the task to create a Terminal Services server farm and ensure that the new users are automatically connected to the terminal server that has the fewest active sessions.
You also need to ensure that the disconnected users are redirected to the server that contains their previous session. Which of the following options would you choose to accomplish the given task?
A.
Use Terminal Services Session Broker (TS Session Broker)
B.
Use Round-robin DNS
C.
Use Terminal Services Gateway (TS Gateway)
D.
Use Network Load Balancing (NLB)
E.
None of the above
Explanation:
To create a Terminal Services server farm with given requirements, you need to use Terminal Services Session Broker (TS Session Broker).
Terminal Services Session Broker (TSSession Broker) is a role service in WindowsServer�2008 that enables a user to reconnect to an existing session in a load-balanced terminal server farm. Additionally, Windows Server2008 includes the new TSSession Broker Load Balancing feature. This feature enables you to distribute the session load between servers in a load-balanced terminal server farm.
TSSession Broker stores session state information that includes session IDs and their associated user names, and the name of the server where each session resides. In the second phase, the terminal server where the initial connection was made redirects the user to the terminal server that was specified by TSSession Broker. The redirection behavior is as follows:
A user with an existing session will connect to the server where their session exists. A user without an existing session will connect to the terminal server that has the fewest sessions.