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Select MSRDP to maintain persistent sessions between Windows clients and servers that are
running the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) service. The recommended scenario for
enabling MSRDP persistence is to create a load balancing pool that consists of members running
the supported Windows Server, where all members belong to a Windows cluster and participate
in a Windows session directory.
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Select None to specify that session actions are not stored for subsequent recall.
5 If you are using a cookie persistence setting, enter the cookie name.
6 (Optional) Select the mode by which the cookie is inserted from the Mode drop-down menu.
Option Description
Insert The NSX Edge sends a cookie.
If the server sends one or more cookies, the client receives an extra cookie (the
server cookie(s) + the NSX Edge cookie). If the server does not send a cookie,
the client receives the NSX Edge cookie.
Prefix The server sends a cookie. Use this option if your client does not support more
than one cookie.
If you have a proprietary application using a proprietary client that supports only
one cookie, the Web server sends a cookie but the NSX Edge injects (as a prefix)
its cookie information in the server cookie value
App Session The server does not send a cookie. Instead, it sends the user session information
as a URL.
For example,
http://mysite.com/admin/UpdateUserServlet;jsessionid=X000X0XXX0XXXX,
where jsessionid is the user session information and is used for persistence.
7 (Optional) Enter the persistence expiration time for the cookie in seconds.
As an example, for L7 load balancing with a TCP source IP, the persistence entry times out if no new
TCP connections are made for the specified expiration time, even if the existing connections are still
live.
8 (Optional) Click the Health Check tab and proceed to the Define Virtual Server Health Check
Settings topic to continue defining the virtual server in the NSX load balancer component.
Define Virtual Server Health Check Settings
By selecting the Customize option on the General tab, you can specify how, or if, the NSX load balancer
performs health checks on pool members within the virtual server.
The default health check protocol and health check port settings match the protocol and port settings on
the General tab.
For related information see Create a Service Monitor in NSX Product Documentation at
https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/nsx_pubs.html. Note that the NSX documentation refers to the
virtual server member as a pool member.
Prerequisites
Define Virtual Server General Settings.
Configuring vRealize Automation
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