After following the implementation steps in the previous section, follow the steps below to test the load-balanced Parallels RAS environment:

  1. Configure your DNS to resolve to the Virtual Service Virtual IP address. In this example, connect.kempdemo.com would resolve to 172.16.0.6.
    Note: This DNS entry would also match your SSL certificate common name.
  2. Open a web browser that can reach the load-balanced IP.
  3. Browse to the configured DNS name for the load-balanced service, for example http://connect.kempdemo.com/ which will redirect to https://connect.kempdemo.com/RASHTML5Gateway/ . A web page should be presented with the RAS login page. This indicates that the LoadMaster has redirected the session to a Real Server.

  4. Enter a username and password with permissions to access the Parallels RAS environment.
  5. In the LoadMaster WUI, go to Statistics > Real Time Statistics.
  6. Click Real Servers.

  7. Open another web browser on a different client and perform the first three steps above.
    Note: This overview shows the active sessions, sessions over the last hour, in addition to how many requests each Real Server handled.

  8. Refresh the LoadMaster statistics page. Notice that, based on the load balancing method we chose, load is spread over both Secure Access Servers (172.16.0.11 and 172.16.0.12).