[THIN] Re: New Citrix install

Your right, my bad.  

Agreed with the rest of what you say here.

Jeff Pitsch

On 6/29/05, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Re-read the original post... Its 2 drives - Raid 1 - and 3 x Raid 5... and 1
> hot spare.  Separate channels.  So no, the Raid 5 partition is sharing
> spindles with the Raid 1 set.
> 
> Personally, I would reconfigure the Raid sets into 1xRAID 10 set across both
> channels (6 drives, no hotspare).  After all, these are Citrix servers.
> You don't need the space of 6 drives, but you'll get a major speed boost
> with fault tolerance.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Jeff Pitsch
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:06 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: New Citrix install
> 
> RAID uses shared spindles so it doesn't really matter in that type of
> environment.
> 
> Jeff Pitsch
> 
> On 6/29/05, Steve Greenberg <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > A common best practice, when resources allow, is to have the system drive
> on
> > it's own spindles (i.e. mirrored) and then a separate spindle/drive for
> > pagefile. When there is a large amount of printing and/or very large spool
> > files, it is beneficial to redirect the print spool to it's own spindle as
> > well.
> >
> > If you don't have such separate drives and no outrageous printing
> > requirement, you could just create a C drive partition for system and D
> for
> > pagefile across the disks you have available.
> >
> > There are many ways, but there are my favorites this month..........
> >
> > Steve Greenberg
> > Thin Client Computing
> > 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
> > Scottsdale, AZ 85262
> > (602) 432-8649
> > www.thinclient.net
> > steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Evan Mann
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 9:39 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: New Citrix install
> >
> > Ok, so it's evident some people think it's a complete waste of money and
> > my partner is full of morons, but we tend to lean towards overkill if we
> > can.  Another $5k doesn't break the bank, and even if I never grow into
> > it, I'm not doing anything bad by having a dedicated data collector,
> > just spending some extra cash.
> >
> > Now back to my original question, what is the recommendation for
> > partitioning.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:21 PM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: New Citrix install
> >
> >
> > Yeah, I think some of you guys must be suffering from resource
> > deprivation out their!!  :)
> >
> > Not only can it take on these additional roles, but in a pinch it could
> > serve apps, then you have N+2 redundancy, how is that bad?
> >
> > Steve Greenberg
> > Thin Client Computing
> > 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
> > Scottsdale, AZ 85262
> > (602) 432-8649
> > www.thinclient.net
> > steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:58 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: New Citrix install
> >
> > Harsh.
> >
> > There's nothing idiotic about this. Perhaps a little on the generous
> > side, but there's mileage in dedicating a machine for non-TS activity
> > for a Citrix farm - even if the farm is fairly small in number of
> > servers.
> >
> > The data-collector could also be a WI server, and perhaps host the
> > datastore, too.
> >
> > Neil
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of pwalley
> > > Sent: 29 June 2005 16:55
> > > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [THIN] Re: New Citrix install
> > >
> > > amen to what bob said.
> > >
> > > On 6/29/05, Bob <bobmails@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > If I were you... I'd be very nervous about depending on
> > > this "partner"
> > > > to install/configure Citrix.  If they can recommend something as
> > > > idiotic as a dedicated data-collector for a maximum 8 server farm,
> > > > they are capable of more dire idiocies.  careful
> >
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