DirectAccess servers can be configured in load-balanced clusters for redundancy and scalability. Single points of failure can be eliminated and additional capacity can be added to accommodate more DirectAccess clients
Why Load Balancing for
DirectAccess?
Eliminate
Single Points
of Failure
Increase
Capacity
Improve
Performance
Network
Load
Balancing
(NLB)
Broadcast Based
| Layer 2 heartbeats
| All nodes generate/receive
| Every second!
Limited Scalability
| Support for 8 nodes maximum
| Effective upper limit is 4 nodes
Lack of Control
| Round-robin distribution only
Issues in Virtual Environments
IP-HTTPS Performance
WINDOWS 8.X/10
Supports null
encryption
Performance equal to
other IPv6 transition
technologies
WINDOWS 7
Encrypted ciphers only
Small performance hit
on client
May require additional
DirectAccess
servers to meet
capacity requirements
HOW KEMP FITS AS PART
OF MICROSOFT PLATFORM
GEO Enabled LoadMaster
Remote
Desktop
Services
SharePoint
Servers
Exchange
Servers
SharePoint ADFS Proxy
ADFS Farm
RDS IIS
ADFS
Servers
Dynamics
Servers
DatamigrationtoOffice365
Skype for
Business
DirectAccess