13.4. The Bottom Line

Describe why you would want to implement load balancing in an RD Session Host environment.

Understanding benefits that load balancing provides to an RD Session Host farm is essential in ensuring a successful implementation that can scale with your future needs.

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Your colleagues and manager are curious as to why you want to expend a bit more effort, and possible additional hardware and software, to configure load balancing for your new RDS environment. How would you justify your decision?

Identify the key feature that an RD Connection Broker provides that other stand-alone load balancers do not.

Even if you have the budget for expensive hardware load balancers or already have them in production, an RD Connection ...

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