Managing for highly available implementations
Establishing a highly available network involves identifying critical components, creating redundancy for these components, and ensuring automatic failover to the secondary component if the active component fails. Critical components include:
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Database
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Provisioning servers
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vDisks and storage
Citrix Provisioning™ provides several options to consider when configuring for a highly available implementation, including:
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Database
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Offline database support, which allows Citrix Provisioning servers to use a snapshot of the database if the connection to the database is lost.
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Citrix Provisioning servers
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Provisioning server failover. If a server becomes unavailable, another server within the site can provide active target devices with the virtual disk.
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Managing servers. You can load balance between provisioning servers to prevent overload and to allow server capacity to be used more effectively and efficiently.
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vDisks and Storage