Create a VDI on a production server farm

Question

Hi guys, I need some advice on this matter: I have a fully functional Hyper-V 8 node cluster (managed with SCVMM 2012 R2) used for server vm. Two VM on that cluster are RD Gateways (we have some users connecting remotely to ther physical PCs).
I need to create a VDI for 30 thin clients, using VMs for RD Connection Broker and Web services and the already working Hyper-V cluster as Virtualization Host. I've already installed manually the RD Virtualization role on each cluster node.
1) When launching the VDI wizard, I cannot skip the RD Virtualization host selection and, if I select the cluster name the installation will fail with error: the given key was not present in the dictionary deploying. Should I simply add all cluster nodes
indipendently? (at this moment, I add 1 cluster node only to check if installation worked)
2) I'm planning to install Connection Broker and Web Services on the same VMs (2 for HA). Should I go whis way or there are reasons to put the 2 roles on different machines?
3) How do I add my existing RD Gateways to the deployment? The server manager seems to be unaware of the already existent role on the two RDG machines.
Best regards
Dario Palermo

Answer 1

Hi Dario,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
For installation process of VDI you can refer following article for detailed information.
Lab Ops 7 – Setting up a pooled VDI collection in Windows Server 2012 R2
Deploying VDI for RDS 2012 / 2012R2 – Part I
As per knowledge, there is no restriction or any issue to place both RDCB and RD Web on same server but personally suggest (if you have enough resource to install) to configure on separate server for HA because of security reason as we don’t like to take risk
to access the RDCB server (by any users) who act as a middle man for load balancing and other stuff for other RDS roles. 
To add the existing RDG server to new deployment; we need to have certificate match by FQDN name, configure RD Gateway manager and add the RD Gateway server Farm member, configure RD CAP and RD RAP successfully and create server groups using the manage locally
stored computer groups and add the computer name, server name and Farm name.
You can get more details for RD Gateway configuration with following links.
How To Work with RD Gateway in Windows Server 2012
Deploying Remote Desktop Gateway RDS 2012
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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