Hello. I am currently doing a POC for a 100 seat VDI solution in server 2012. I have 2 separate AD sites in the same domain. I am planning for not only local high availability with a Hyper-V cluster but also DR. Let's say there are 50 users in each location, and each site is going to serve as the DR site for the other. The architecture will look like this:
Site A:
2 - RD Conn brokers in a HA setup / 2 license servers / 2 RD Web access servers (load balanced via netscaler) / 2 RDVH Servers (Hyper-V Cluster) connected to a 3PAR SAN
Site B:
2 - RD Conn brokers in a HA setup / 2 license servers / 2 RD Web access servers (load balanced via netscaler) / 2 RDVH Servers (Hyper-V Cluster) connected to a 3PAR SAN
I will be replicating the LUNs that the VMs are on using 3PAR Remote Copy.
When I need to failover the 50 VMs from Site A to Site B, how will the user assignment persist? I see that there is a Personal Virtual Desktop tab in the ADUC but it does not work (Domain is 2008R2). There is also the ability to assign a VM to the user in Server Manager -> Remote Desktop Services -> Collections -> Personal. There is also automatic user assignment to the next desktop in the collection. However, I am pretty sure that this is local to the RDCB for the particular RDS deployment.
I am trying to guarantee that the user will be assigned the same desktop no matter where they connect from (Site A or Site B) or where the desktop happens to be (Site A or Site B). I have a feeling, the user will be assigned a new desktop in the other site after the failover.
Thanks in advance.