[THIN] Re: Raid setups for citrix servers?
- From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:49:26 +0000
Pretty much all of the deployments that I have seen, a single mirror set is
plenty.
I would be looking at the disk queue using perfmon and making sure that
there isn't a backlog of requests. As long as there isn't then there
shouldn't be a major hassle with disk performance on a Citrix server.
It's definitely a case of YMMV though. I have seen some instances with
applications that build a a database locally, copy data from another
database server into it's database, use it and then wipe it at logoff. When
you have 40 users on a server, it can blow the disks away. The same would go
if you were running a VMWare server and had the disks locally for 10 servers
sitting on top, the IO/sec requirements could be quite high.
Either way, take a look at what you are actually doing, and if required get
some smaller disks then less large ones, this will give you more IO/sec.
Berny
2009/1/30 jond <x@xxxxxxxx>
> I'm curious how everyone does raid on their citrix presentation boxes.
>
> I've always done them in a simple Raid 5 setup(with online spare) with
> 5-6 15,000rpm drives.
> It makes for a pretty smoking fast setup, but it's not the cheapest
> setup in the world.
> I just got a quote for the new box I'm building, and the drives cost
> almost as much as the server.
>
> Anyone doing anything like raid 1 on the OS and raid 5 on the data?
> Anything more exotic?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
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