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

  1. Open an RDP connection to the RDS 2012 deployment to make sure the destination of your RDP session points to the DNS name configured earlier (which points to the IP address of the RD Session Host Virtual Service). In our example, it is rsdhfarm.rdpdoc.net.
  2. In the main menu of the LoadMaster WUI, select Statistics.

  3. Click the Virtual Services button.
    Note: This overview shows the active sessions, sessions over the last hour, in addition to how many requests each Real Server handled.

  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 Session Host servers.