Redundant RDS servers for multiple sessions

In this topology model with three client machines, there would be nine primary licenses and nine failover licenses (FLB).

In this redundant RDS servers model, as with other redundant RDS server models, you activate both the primary client licenses and the failover client licenses (FLB) in the primary License Server. A copy of these licenses is always synchronized and exists on the backup License Server. When failover occurs and the clients point to the backup License Server, the failover licenses will be available from the backup License Server.

Supervisory Client FLB Licenses are required for the backup RDS Server.

Note: You can use both ReadWrite and ReadOnly RDS licenses in the same License Server.

Advantages

Multiple RDS sessions can be run on each client machine, with licenses served from the License Server hosted on the primary RDS server, and managed by the License Manager hosted on the same RDS server.

RDS ReadOnly licenses can coexist with ReadWrite Licenses in the same License Server.

The redundancy in this model is provided by redundant RDS servers. prevent overuse of licenses and potential unavailability at failover, there is no separate redundancy of License Servers.

Limitations

Licenses must be deactivated before cloning VMs, otherwise, a Grace Period is triggered.