[THIN] Re: Alternative fileservers (EMC Celerra)

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
>
>
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