We currently have a physical 2008R2 RDS server that half or our company connects to both internally and externally to get their work done. We just set up a Cisco SSL VPN to secure the outside access for that server. Users can't connect externally unless
they are in the VPN first. Now we will be adding 40 more RDP users (mostly internal thin clients) and we want some redundancy with RDS. We have a HyperV server in another building that is connected by fibre switch at 1Gbps. We have another free 2008R2 server
license and could create a new VM on that server to be a 2nd RDS server for a RDS farm. My questions are, do we really need a separate RDS gateway server if we aren't worried about external security and what is the best way to create the connnection broker
so that will have redundancy built in? Such as if the connection broker quits working wherever it is installed, how easy could we start up another connnection broker on another virtual or physical server. We now have three 2008R2 physical servers that could
hold that role if needed. Can maybe 2 servers be configured with the connection broker settings, but only one activated at any one time?
Mike Heitzman