Testing

After following the implementation steps in the previous section, follow the steps below to test the load balanced RD Connection Broker environment:

1. Open an RDP connection to the RDS 2012 deployment. This can be performed in various ways:

   • Use RD Web Access. Refer to the Load Balancing Remote Desktop Web Access section.

   • Use the Remote App and Desktop Connections (RADC) as part of the Control Panel.

   • Manually create a .RDP file.

2. In the main menu of the LoadMaster WUI, select Statistics.

   

3. Click Virtual Services.
   Note: This overview shows the active sessions, sessions over the last hour, in addition to how many requests each Real Server handled. As explained, because the RD Connection Broker Real Servers only handle the initial RDP connection, you will likely never see any active sessions because as soon as the RD Connection Broker has referred the user to an RD Session Host, the connection from the client to the RD Connection Broker is dropped as the client now has a connection with the RD Session Host itself.

   

4. Open another web browser on a different client and perform steps 1 and 2 above.

   

5. Refresh the LoadMaster statistics page. Notice that, based on the load balancing method we chose, load is spread over both RD Connection Broker servers.