Hi!
My company is setting up two Windows Server 2016 RDS servers in a high availability group. I would like to understand how many device cals I need in a high availability environment.
Lets say both servers are served by the connection broker using load balancing. I have 100 device cals. 40 devices active on node 1 and 40 on node 2. So there are 80 permanent cals assigned and 20 free.
What happens when node 1 goes down and all clients reconnect to node 2. Do they acquire new licences?(only 20 non-assigned cals are available) or do they connect with the same permanent cals they used on node 1?
Found this (https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2346349&seqNum=4) document on the forum here, but did not find the reply to my question.
EDIT: the document from the link above says the following:
"Splitting (device) CALs between two RD Licensing servers is slightly more expensive because you need to purchase additional CALs for the secondary
RD Licensing server."
One could interpret that as the necessity to buy all licences twice.
Best regards,
Andy