Using NginX as a load-balancer for VMware Horizon View security servers
Introduction I have been deploying a VDI solution recently based on the fantastic VMWare Horizon Suite ↗, one of the important points of deploying the Horizon View ↗ component of this is making it highly available and accessible from the outside for on-the-road users. The best way I have found to load-balance incoming connections (both internally and externally) is to set up a linux VM and run NginX ↗, which is a reverse caching proxy - it allows us to terminate the SSL connections and load-balance across our backend View Security Servers in a DMZ....