A multi-server topology helps provide redundancy to the WDS infrastructure and can be used to spread the load image deployment among multiple servers. Like a multisite topology, responses to client deployment requests can be split among the servers by configuring which servers respond to which prestaged clients.
Because WDS isn’t cluster-aware and the roles within WDS can’t be split among servers, in essence each server operates independently, although sharing a common image store replicated through DFS is typical.
With that in mind, you need to perform limited configuration within WDS in a multi-server topology, aside from configuring the location of the image store with DFS replication.
The WDS management console also enables multiple servers to be managed from a central location. Configure this by right-clicking Servers and selecting Add Server. The Add Servers dialog box in Figure 1-10 enables you to choose a server to add to the local management console.
FIGURE 1-10 Choosing a server to manage from the central location helps facilitate a multi-server topology.
