I'm presently researching hardware for setting up a new vSphere cluster, to include several RDSH-related servers.
We anticipate 35-50 users to start.
I know the RDSH roles are:
RD Session Host – provides the actual apps, this will be provisioned with sufficient vCPU and RAM
RD Connection Broker – load balancing of RDSH servers, manages all reconnections
RD Web Access – offers apps from RDSH server
RD Licensing – manages RDSH access licensing
RD Gateway – manages external access to internal apps
1) Which RDSH roles can be safely combined together into one server??
2) Is it reasonable to plan for two gateway servers for redundancy (dns round robin)??
3) Two hosts should be enough to serve applications for 35-50 users??
4) Can the published apps interact with other apps on the PC or if the publiched apps are accessed during a XenApp session, can the published apps interact with the apps installed to XenApp?? For example, if the accounting software is an RDSH published app and they start the app, can the accounting software communicate in any way with Outlook or Excel on the user's PC or XenApp desktop?? The published apps will come from a different domain I think...
I hope I asked #4 properly.
5) Should RD licensing be placed upon one of the domain controllers instead of upon any of the RDS cluster servers??
Anything else I should know??
Thank you, Tom