High availability

This chapter describes how to set up ThinLinc with High Availability (from now on referred to as “HA”) for the master servers. Since the master handles load balancing and the session database, it can be problematic if the machine fails. ThinLinc HA provides protection for this service against the single point of failure that the hardware running the master service normally is.

The basic principle behind this setup is to have two redundant servers, both acting as masters. If one of the masters goes down, the other one will take over with no or short interruption of service.

Note

The HA functionality provided by ThinLinc provides synchronization of the ThinLinc session database across two master servers. The software used by these machines to implement failover is not part of ThinLinc, and must be installed and configured according to your requirements. The industry standard for doing so on Linux is provided by Pacemaker and Corosync, see https://clusterlabs.org for more information.