RDS: replicating profiles between session hosts

Question

Hello :)

I want to build an RDS farm with 2HA connection broker and 2 session Hosts.

The 2 connection brokers are a VM and the 2 session hosts are hardware servers with this configuration:
10c/20t CPU
64GB Ram
4x 1.2TB 10k SAS

I want to use FSLogix for the profiles.

Is there a solution to replicate the profiles between those session Hosts without an external file server ?

I thought about using DFS-R for replication but everywhere stands it’s not supported ?

Answer 1

Hello there,

You may enable roaming/local profiles, then migrate roaming/local profiles, after the profile migration is completed, enable UPD for the RDS collection.
You may also use a tool such as the User State Migration Tool (USMT) to migrate user data and settings to the users' new computers.

For your reference:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0388773b-b74a-4d67-98bb-bdf21a874c8a/rds-user-profile-disk-migration-practice?forum=winserverTS
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/f9b802e6-01bd-47b9-b93f-4e4c9d7ac356/move-an-rds-server-between-domains-and-migrate-user-profile-data?forum=winserverTS

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