{"id":10432,"date":"2010-02-20T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2010-02-20T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T14:34:14","slug":"deploy-a-virtualized-session-based-remote-desktop-services-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10432","title":{"rendered":"Deploy a Virtualized Session-Based Remote Desktop Services Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;FamilyID=8d454921-72d6-45b4-b6ba-ac1c26d337bd&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+%28Microsoft+Download+Center%29#tm\" target=\"_blank\">guidance<\/a> on how to deploy a virtualised Remote Desktop Services (aka Terminal Services) Session Host (aka Terminal Server) on a machine\/hardware virtualisation platform.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis document provides guidance on deploying Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) and other Remote Desktop Services role services in a virtualized environment with minimal hardware resources. The document also provides scalability information for a virtualized Remote Desktop Services role configuration by using the Knowledge Worker scenario to help size hardware for similar workloads\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If this subject interests you then you should check out an independent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectvrc.nl\/index.php?option=com_docman&amp;task=doc_details&amp;gid=9&amp;Itemid=\" target=\"_blank\">white paper by The Virtual Reality Check<\/a> that compares the performance of Terminal Services on VMware vSphere 4.0, Citrix XenServer 5.5 and Microsoft\u2019s Hyper-V 2.0 (Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve deployed fairly small solutions on Hyper-V and they worked fine.&#160; One of the nice things about virtualising them is that you can control your resources nicely: start out small and grow as required in a very rapid manner.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b6f5e0d5-8612-44b5-acc5-274ff96824cc\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Remote+Desktop+Services\" rel=\"tag\">Remote Desktop Services<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMware\" rel=\"tag\">VMware<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Xen\" rel=\"tag\">Xen<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2008+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released guidance on how to deploy a virtualised Remote Desktop Services (aka Terminal Services) Session Host (aka Terminal Server) on a machine\/hardware virtualisation platform. \u201cThis document provides guidance on deploying Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) and other Remote Desktop Services role services in a virtualized environment with minimal hardware resources. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deploy a Virtualized Session-Based Remote Desktop Services Solution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,43],"tags":[181,188,103,117,127],"class_list":["post-10432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","category-terminal-services","tag-hyper-v","tag-remote-desktop-services","tag-vmware","tag-windows-server-2008-r2","tag-xen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}