Uneven load balancing of ICA sessions - VDA servers show high load

Uneven load balancing of ICA sessions - VDA servers show high load

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Article ID: CTX285197

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Description

  • Uneven number of sessions reported on each server in Citrix Studio.
  • Servers with higher number of sessions had high resource utilization.

Resolution

  1. Restart Citrix Group Policy Engine service on the VDA and run gpupdate
  2. Confirm that the policies are getting applied by checking the below registry path: 
    • HKLM\Software\Policies\Citrix\LoadManagement

Problem Cause

  • Observed that the servers with high utilization had a lesser value for the load index when compared to the other servers
  • Load evaluator policies were not applied on the affected servers

Additional Information

Refer to the below link to know more about how the load index value is calculated

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202150