RDS load testing

d_brennen · 14 May 2020 at 00:00

Anyone know of a tool that can load up a 2016 RDS/terminal server and log metrics?

I have a wonky RDS server that slows to a crawl randomly when 15-20 or so users are on and someone logs in. System hangs for everyone, opening explorer/programs take an age and some newly logged in users have no shares mapped. Just as soon as it goes FUBAR, everything recovers and users can log in again fine. Nothing in events I can see, CPU/RAM usage is fine... at the end of my tether with it. Similar setup at another site is fine. GPO processing looks fine, seeing the same issues both RDP locally and RDWeb.

Microsoft's tool seems to be limited to previous versions, lots of very suspicious third party sites claiming to do this

d_brennen · 16 May 2020 at 13:07

Thanks for the replies. Storage a concern, it's an old SAN with limited network performance. Got a new fibre switch this week. Migrating to vSAN and new hosts next week (woohoo covid remote work budget extension!). We'll see what happens

d_brennen · 21 May 2020 at 15:58

CrimsonAvenger said:
Re: RDS coffin time - how so ?

Probably implying Azure hosted desktops. Not an option for everyone, especially the ongoing cost

d_brennen · 21 May 2020 at 16:04

Anyhoo, tomorrow afternnon is D Day, switching over guests from the old datastore to vSAN and some swanky hosts, SSD cache, the lot.

Got donated some nvidia M60 GPUs as well, will have a play with GPU passthrough on one of the hosts, sell the rest. Seem to be worth a few quid