NFUSE Load balancing question

[djacobus]

I have a XPe farm of 3 servers. The farm is load balanced obviuosly... I am proceeding to load the Citrix neighborhood agent onto about 80 pc's on our network. Since the agent asks for the nfuse server address my question is this: Even though I am only using one nfuse web enabled citrix box with IIS etc, is my application still load balanced across the 3 servers? Would it be better for me to establish round robin in DNS and install NFUSE on all 3 servers so I can still use the one address? Thanks in advance for any responses!

 

[KCDave03]

I was told at one time that NFuse will round-robin the connections but ALL the Metaframe servers need to be listed in the NFuse config.

 

[rayzze]

The latest free version of NFUSE is called Web Interface and can be told of multiple farms to manage by giving a few of the IP addresses of the servers in each farm. The load balancing will be done the same way as always by querying the farm for the least busy server as defined by the load management. You don't need more then one NFUSE server unless you are hosting a large amount of clients. Some people will round robin the server that is contacted to get the information about the farm by creating a alias for the name ICA and placing the IP address of all your servers into that alias. Then you tell NFUSE to contact ICA.yourzone.com as the server to contact about the farm...

Hope that helps,

 

[djacobus]

I'm still confused. Here is my config. I have 3 servers in the same farm. The name of these servers are: TS1, TS2 and TS3. TS1 has nfuse loaded. TS2 and TS3 do not have nfuse loaded. When one of my clients (with only the citrix neighborhood agent loaded)hits the nfuse server (ts1) do the other 2 servers ts2 and ts3 still provide load balancing? Does the nfuse server look beyond itself into the farm to provide load balancing? I'm not concerned at this point yet in load balancing nfuse.

 

[koelkast37]

Hi Jacobus,

When a user contacts the Nfuse server, in this case TS1, it will look for the least busy server, that is TS1,2 or 3 and will redirect you through to that server. So TS1 has in your case two roles: proxy and Citrix server.

TS1 is wise enough to differentiate between the two roles, so the answer is:

YES!

Have fun with your Farm,

BK

 

[djacobus]

Thanks Koelkast. I'm not an expert but I wanted to make sure. We have a "Citrix Vendor" here who couldnt answer the question.