On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Dogbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > So general question to anyone and everyone using guacamole. A while back I > did a POC using guacamole in place of noVNC, using Grails, as the back-end. > Now looking to take the next step, and I was wondering how well does a > single node of guacamole scale in other peoples experience? To clarify what > I mean when I say scale, how many sessions, have you been able to run on one > server? What configurations have people used to scale up what they can > support? Does anyone have any suggestions, or rules of thumb they've figured > out on the way. Thanks for any ideas, suggestions, or responses. >
I've actually been performing load tests against various common instance types on EC2 recently, so I should have some good numbers and best practices for scaling soon...ish. In the general case, throwing a balancer in front of guacd and pointing the webapp at that balancer works well, and allows you to add/remove guacd nodes as necessary (though until there exists a balancer which is aware of the Guacamole protocol, doing so will prevent Guacamole's screen sharing support from working). Do you have any idea of how many concurrent users you are intending to support (at peak), and what kind of tasks those users will be performing on average? What are the specifications of your current server? Thanks, - Mike
