There are a couple of pieces to the Fail Over Group. The first is load
balancing, and the second is fail over.

In your case the basic process is....

DTU comes on-line
gets DHCP from DHCP Server
looks up sunray-config-servers
tftp's a .parms file from sunray-config-servers
reads .parms file for server
conencts to server
server starts CAM session.

what you will want to do to make this process use both servers in the
failover group for as many steps as possible is:

make sunray-config-servers a round-robin DNS between the IP's of the FOG
servers
create/modify the .parms files on both FOG servers to have a servers=
line that contains BOTH Sun Ray Servers
Add a select=random line to the .parms files

This will load balance both the TFTP step and the initial display
connection step.  The built-in SRSS load balancing will take care of
spreading out the sessions across the members of the fog. These steps
also facilitate failover if one of the members of the FOG is down. Note
that fail over does not mean that your Sun Ray session is copied to the
other FOG member. The resumption of your work is maintained at the
Terminal Server Level, so it's important that you do not enable the
destruction of disconnected RDP sessions.



On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 14:36 -0300, Jason Doyle wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We recently bought a second server to act as a standby SRSS server and
> I'm looking for advice on the setup.  Here's the current environment:
> * 35 DTU's (SR2) connected via 50 Mbps WAN to SRSS server on different
> subnet.  Theres' only about 20 concurrent users.
> * the DTU's get their IP's from a local windows-based DHCP server and
> find/access the SRSS via DNS entries:
> sunray-servers,sunray-config-servers
> * there's only 1 SRSS server today and its a 2 socket X4100
> * SRSS is setup in CAM mode.  Users get a Windows 2003 desktop via the
> Sun Ray RDP Connector
> * all of the latest Solaris, SRSS and SRC patches have been applied
> 
> The new server we bought to act as the FOG secondary is a dual-core
> X2100 M2, plenty of memory.  I've read through some documentation on
> how to setup a FOG but I have some questions, especially since our
> setup is unique.  If the primary SRSS server drops, how will the DTU's
> find the secondary SRSS server?  Do I have to manually update the DNS
> entries or can I supply more than one DNS entry?  Does the main IP
> move between SRSS servers, like a cluster?
> 
> Are there any whitepapers or good How To guides out there?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
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Brad Lackey
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US Software Practice
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