Method and system for providing load balancing for virtualized application workspaces

A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing content that, when executed, controls a computing system to perform a method comprising:

• generating, on a client device, a virtual workspace for a user based on a point of access associated with the user, the virtual workspace including icons for a local application running on the client device and a remote application running on the one or more of the plurality of servers;
• receiving a request to launch the remote application;
• in response to the request to launch the remote application, broadcasting a message to a message bus to request an available session for executing the remote application on the one or more of a plurality of server computing systems, the message bus having the one or more of the plurality of server computing systems subscribed to an event that corresponds to the session related request for the available session;
• receiving a response over the message bus from one or more of the plurality of server computing systems, the response containing a set of statistical information related to the one or more of the plurality of server computing systems;
• sorting the responding one or more server computing systems based according to the statistical information received over the message bus, wherein the sorting further comprises
• computing a score for each of the responding one or more server computing systems based on the statistical information received over the message bus, wherein computing the score comprises computing the score based on a number of sessions serviced by the one or more servers, a percentage of committed bytes used by the one or more servers, and average processor utilization for the one or more servers, and wherein computing the score also comprises averaging a first value associated with the number of sessions, a second value associated with the percentage of committed bytes, and a third value associated with the average processor utilization;
• storing each of the responding one or more server computing systems into a data structure;
• sorting the data structure based on the score;
• and
• selecting the one of the responding one or more server computing systems to provide the available session for executing the remote application based on the sorting of the data structure.

A system comprising:

• a virtual workspace generated for a user on a client device based on a point of access associated with the user, the virtual workspace including icons for a local application running on the client device and a remote application;
• a plurality of servers each configured to be able to execute the remote application on behalf of a remote process;
• a message bus and associated protocol configured to receive one or more messages to be distributed to the plurality of servers registered to receive the message;
• and
• a requesting process that controls session management, the requesting process executing on an application server and configured, when executed, to:
• receive a request to launch the remote application;
• in response to the request to launch the remote application, send a session related message to the message bus to request an available session for executing a remote application,
• receive one or more responses from one or more responding servers of the plurality of servers, the one or more responses including a set of statistical information related to the one or more of the plurality of server computing systems;
• sort the responding one or more servers according to the statistical information received in the one or more responses, wherein the sorting further comprises
• computing a score for each of the responding one or more servers based on the statistical information received over the message bus, wherein computing the score comprises computing the score based on a number of sessions serviced by the one or more servers, a percentage of committed bytes used by the one or more servers, and average processor utilization for the one or more servers, and wherein computing the score also comprises averaging a first value associated with the number of sessions, a second value associated with the percentage of committed bytes, and a third value associated with the average processor utilization;
• storing each of the responding one or more servers into a data structure;
• sorting the data structure based on the score;
• and
• select the one of the responding one or more servers to provide the available session for executing the remote application based on the sorting of the data structure.