Workspace Streaming

I'm working on configuring our new SWS environment for DR and I'm having an issue adding a Child Streamlet Engine. My current setup is 2 Front End servers, one at each of our data centers and 2 back end servers at each DC. I have the 2 front end components added and 1 backend server. I don't have the external address configured yet to sit behind the load balancer but I can stream apps in my current setup. I want to add my second back end server as a child streamlet engine but when I go to add the component I select Child Streamlet Engine, enter the hostname and access key and then click on get name and it returns the name of my primary backend server and when I try and save it says the name already exists and to login to the console on the other box and change the name. I can't find anywhere in the console where the secondary back end server is configured as the same name nor can I find anything in the log files.

I'd like to have my setup configured so that the connection to 1 data center can go down and I can still continue to stream to clients. Is my design correct in having 1 front end and 1 back end in each data center?

Thanks,

Jason               

If your datacenters are based on Virtual hosts ala VMware vCenter, I would make the following setup:

1 BE (STE) that are HA using vCenter or similar.

x FE on each Datacenters that have the following components in them: FE and DA

The reason for this is that if the STE are down clients are still able to use the software they already have provisioned, since they will use the DA component on the FE servers instead of the BE server.

Downside, is that you are not able to use the console while the STE are down.

To speed up delivery of packages, its a good idea to use DFS as delivery mechanisme, since it will be not use the LB's http to send the packages to the clients.

I'll have to talk to our VMware guys if that's possible. I know both backend servers are on different vCenters.

So my component configuration should be, 2 FE servers, 2 DA servers (Same as FE), and 1 BE server configured for a total of 5 components?

Since this will mainly end up being used for our VDI clients (and maybe Citrix servers) I configured a DFS share as my external repository and for VDI clients I'll probably end up configuring them to stream directly from the share for base packages.

Jason

Have you looked at Network Application Streaming feature of the streaming client, this is made for VDI.

Basically streaming without the servers straight from a network share.

See the following vidoes here on connect for a introduction

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/videos/symantec-workspace-streaming-integration-symantec-client-management-suite-duration-9-minutes

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/videos/configure-symantec-workspace-virtualization-and-streaming-network-application-mode

Yeah I saw that demo'd down at Vision this last year. I think we plan on using that feature just to speed up streaming for VDI clients with our base packages. Anything that's provisioned based on user or AD group will be streamed either from Citrix or SWS. I can't remember, can you stream from network share and SWS on the same client?

Jason

As far as I know you can only use stream or sws not both on the same time on the same client.