An interesting comment indeed, we have about 700 concurrent users on our Citrix farm and even the slightest hiccup of our file server currently has a clear negative impact on users perceived performance. The (new) fileserver should be able to handle many open files at once without delays, lags or other slowness. Erik >----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- >Van: M [mailto:mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Verzonden: woensdag, maart 26, 2008 12:33 PM >Aan: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Onderwerp: [THIN] Re: Alternative fileservers (EMC Celerra) > >Hello Rick, > >Can you elaborate on your interesting comment. >"The Celerra style NAS approach can have throughput problems in a TS >environment. It's fine anywhere else" > >I am interested because we use this (it also cost a bomb so im told) and have >had real issues with pausing Citrix sessions. Our Citrix team eventually >pinpointed this to the way the disks were configured and the way departmental >data was distributed. > >Matt > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rick Mack > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:01 AM > Subject: [THIN] Re: Alternative fileservers (EMC Celerra) > > > Hi Erik, > > Have a look at Polyserve (HP). That is about as good as they get. > > The Celerra style NAS approach can have throughput problems in a TS > environment. It's fine anywhere else. > > regards, > > Rick > > -- > Ulrich Mack > Quest Software > Provision Networks Division > > > On 3/26/08, Erik Blom <erik.blom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > We are currently evaluating a possible migration from our Windows 2003 > fileserver towards another fileserving system. Our main concerns are > security, high-availability and performance. We talked to EMC about this and > they mentioned migrating towards a Celerra system. > > Does anyone of you has any experience - good or bad - with such a system? > > Regards, > > Erik > > > ************************************************ > For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or > set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: > http://www.freelists.org/list/thin > ************************************************ > > > > > ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://www.freelists.org/list/thin ************************************************