General Server question for client, 100% uptime

Question

Good morning,

We are a local small business that provides IT support to other small business's in the area. Most of our clients have a single domain controller onsite with onsite/offsite cloud based backups. This works for most of them. All backups are tested to see if they restore properly just to have piece of mind. All servers usually have manufacturer warranty that covers all the physical components for the machine. We get parts , restore backups and away we go.

I have one client who has grown and needs 100% availability. They are running a single DC with no vm's. On this server they use RDP for a few users to access the software needed for tracking the fleet of vehicles. It is also their file server and it's hosts the POS system which is crucial and needs to be available 24/7. The POS used to be on a old pc that died and was installed on the server in a pinch.

I need an affordable onsite scenario that can offer them 100% availability. Should I get two servera that replicate to each other. If so what software should I use? If not what other scenario should I consider?

Answer 1

Hi,
From RDS deployment perspective, users are allowed to scale out the RD session host servers by add new RDSH into "collection" and it will provide you customization properties via GUI.

This provides higher collection availability and increases scale to support more users or resource-heavy applications.

Reference links:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/rds-roles#remote-desktop-session-host
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/rds-scale-rdsh-farm

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Hope this helps and please help to accept as Answer if the response is useful.

Thanks,
Jenny