 
Load balancing, increased security and redundancy for your Terminal Services
Since Microsoft Terminal Services Servers support many users, it's important
to ensure that each Terminal Server is fully redundant and that the load is
distributed between servers ensuring optimal service quality for users.
2X LoadBalancer for Terminal Services / Citrix allows you to easily load
balance RDP/ICA sessions between Terminal Servers and provide fault tolerance.
In addition, if you are allowing users to login from the internet, you can hide
the backend terminal services from the internet and just expose one single
gateway machine - thereby drastically increasing security of your Terminal
Servers.
Reconnect user sessions
With 2X LoadBalancer, users can be reconnected to their disconnected sessions
easily. No need to setup the complex session directory.
2X LoadBalancer features:
- Resource based load balancing
- Ensures redundancy of Terminal Servers
- Reconnects users to disconnected sessions
- Reconnects users to active sessions
- Integration with 2X
ApplicationServer
- Firewall friendly, end to end SSL encryption
- Supports Microsoft Terminal Services and Citrix.
2X LoadBalancer for Terminal Services / Citrix Features and Screenshots
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Resource based load balancing
2X LoadBalancer intelligently distributes the load on the Terminal Server
machine which has the least usage. By retrieving information about the
Terminal Servers' resource usage before establishing the connection, it is
able to determine the best Terminal Server to handle the incoming session.
By contrast, network load balancing in Windows Server simply distributes
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Ensures redundancy of Terminal Servers
2X LoadBalancer first checks whether the terminal service of a particular
server is responding before forwarding a connection to it. This allows you
to ensure complete redundancy of each Terminal Server. By contrast, network
load balancing in Windows Terminal Server just checks if the machine is
alive: If the terminal service is not responding the user’s connection will
be forwarded regardless, thus resulting in the user not being able to
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Reconnects users to disconnected sessions
2X LoadBalancer also checks if a user has a disconnected session on any of
the servers and if so, reconnects them to the right server. No need for Windows
2000 Advanced Server or Windows 2003 Enterprise Server with session directory -
Use standard server licenses and save thousands of dollars in licensing fees and
hours of installation & administration time.
Firewall friendly, end to end SSL encryption
When used in SSL Gateway mode, the 2X LoadBalancer provides end-to-end SSL
encryption to your terminal servers. This not only greatly enhances security but
also gives you a firewall/proxy friendly solution with true SSL/HTTPS
capabilities.
Supports Microsoft Terminal Services and Citrix servers
2X LoadBalancer is designed to work with Microsoft Terminal Services Servers
(Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, Windows 2000 Terminal Services and
Windows 2003 Terminal Services) and Citrix MetaFrame (in case you do not want to
spend the extra cost for XPa).
Other Features
- Clientless solution - no need for any client to be installed
- Less expensive and less complex to install and administer than Citrix.
System requirements
- Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional or higher.
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