Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

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A farm is a group of RDS hosts that provides a common set of applications or RDS desktops to users.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Farms,” on page 97
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“Worksheet for Creating a Farm,” on page 98
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“Create a Farm,” on page 99
Farms
Farms simplify the task of managing RDS hosts, RDS desktops, and applications in an enterprise. You can
create farms to serve groups of users that vary in size or have different desktop or application requirements.
When you create an application pool or an RDS desktop pool, you must specify one and only one farm. The
RDS hosts in a farm can host RDS desktops, applications, or both. A farm can support at most one RDS
desktop pool, but it can support multiple application pools. A farm can support both types of pools
simultaneously.
Farms provide the following conveniences:
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Load balancing
By default, View balances the load of the RDS desktop sessions and the application sessions across all
the RDS hosts in the farm.
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Redundancy
If one RDS host in a farm is offline, the other RDS hosts in the farm continue to provide applications
and desktops to users.
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Scalability
A farm can have a variable number of RDS hosts. You can create farms with different numbers of RDS
hosts to serve user groups of different sizes.
Farms have the following properties:
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A View pod can have a maximum of 200 farms.
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A farm can have a maximum of 200 RDS hosts.
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