Load balancing Remote Desktop Services Web Access & Gateway with KEMP Load Master for Azure

I recently build a lab in Windows Azure running Remote Desktop Services (a session-based deployment) to test-drive the KEMP Load Master for Azure which Kemp Technologies recently announced.

I wrote a detailed blog post which was published on the Kemp Technologies blog.

“…Guest post by Freek Berson, Microsoft MVP on RDS

Recently, Kemp Technologies has released their KEMP LoadMaster for Azure which they offer for free! I wrote a quick blog post recently on why this is interesting. In this blog post I want to describe a specific scenario based in a lab I have built in Azure using the KEMP Load Master for Azure and compare that solution to the load balancing options Windows Azure offers in the box…”

Read the blog post here: Load balancing Remote Desktop Services Web Access & Gateway with KEMP Load Master for Azure

Kemp announces FREE software load balancer for Windows Azure!

Kemp Technologies (kemptechnologies.com) have announced the availability of a free software load balancer specifically for Azure!

Why is this important?

The Azure load balancing options that Windows Azure offers today are very basic. Basically its just round robin. Which means no layer 7 functionality is available, and therefor there is no option for affinity, content switching, compression etc.

I have previously performed some testing with the load balancing options available in Azure today, and ran into serious issues where Session Affinity was required by the web application.

The Kemp Load Master for Azure solution could solve those issues with a license free software load balancer that even includes e-mail support!

Here is a link where Kemp announced this: http://kemptechnologies.com/blog/introducing-loadmaster-for-windows-azure-load-balancing-the-microsoft-cloud/

My request for the Free LoadMaster for Azure is on it’s way!

A quick comparison sheet taken from their description: