The goal of TSplus Farm features is to allow the Administrator to manage all his TSPlus servers from a single server. This server can be referred as the Farm Controller.
The TSplus servers in the Farm are named the Application Servers, or just Servers.
This Farm Controller, once having its farm populated with Application Servers, will also become a Gateway Server once you enabled any of the Farm features such as:
This Gateway Server will basically become the main entry point of all your users when either "Load Balancing" or "Assign Servers" is enabled.
Finally, this Farm Controller will also allow you to monitor any Applications Servers, and easily push TSplus related settings such as Applications and Advanced settings from your Farm Controller to your Application Servers.
There are 2 options to deploy a TSplus farms of servers:
Option 1: All your servers have public IP addresses and can be reached from the Internet.
OR
Option 2: Only the Gateway Portal can be reached from the Internet. The Gateway Server is providing a “Reverse Proxy Role”.
In both options:
Of course, make sure that this application is installed on the targeted Application Servers.
All Web Access types are available without any specific configuration: RemoteApp and HTML5 clients.
This is the recommended architecture to use Terminal Service Plus Gateway.
This architecture follows best practices and allows the IT Administrator to industrialize its environment:
With this architecture, all access types are available without any specific configuration: Remoteapp and HTML5 clients.
This architecture is described in the diagram below:
Terminal Service Plus Gateway can also be set up with only 1 Public IP Address.
The Gateway redirects any external connection request to any available server. If you do not use the load balancing feature, users will connect to their assigned server(s).
This architecture is described in the diagram below:
For more information about the Reverse Proxy Role, see the Reverse Proxy Feature documentation.