[GUACAMOLE-53] Add support for session affinity within balancing groups

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.10-incubating
• Component/s: guacamole-auth-jdbc
• Assignee: Mike Jumper
• Reporter: Mike Jumper
• Created: 15/Jun/16 04:37
• Updated: 08/Aug/16 20:45
• Resolved: 15/Jun/16 05:43

Description

When a user makes a connection to a balancing group, a least-used algorithm for choosing which underlying connection is used. This is fine for the case where state need not be maintained between connection attempts, but is disruptive when users will lose state or data if they are not consistently routed to the same connection.

For example, if a user is using an RDP connection, their open applications will suddenly appear to no longer be open after a reconnect, even though they continue to run on a different connection.

If balancing groups provide a "session affinity" option, then users could be consistently routed to the same connection as long as their session is valid.