Reviewing general guidelines for the right design
When we think in terms of scenarios with high availability or load balancing, it must begin with the correct platform design.
In this section, we will name just a few of the considerations and concepts that you should take into account when designing the right 'high availability' and 'load balanced' solution:
There's no golden rule: We should never try to apply a previous design to our implementation; every organization, with its requirements, policies, applications, users, and so on, is unique. Get references and investigate, but do not try to implement a previous design.
In my previous book, Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 (http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-microsoft-application-virtualization-46/book), we had a good look at the "right questions" that we should be asking in order to achieve a proper design.
Start with the "Infrastructure Planning and Design" guides from Microsoft: This complete set of guides...