[THIN] global or multi regional citrix farms

  • From: "Lilley, Brian" <brian.lilley@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:22:01 +0100

Hi all,

Bit of an urgent request here... I need you guys that have designed big Citrix
farms to give me the benefit of your experience, Brian.. Jim et al... you know
who you are....

I have a customer who currently has around 50 1.8 farms dotted around the
globe.  They are looking to consolidate into a Presentation Server III farm.
The intial thoughts were to simply have one global farm with a highly
resilient datastore replicated around the globe.

My concern with the single global farm firstly, is the ability to maintain the
integrity and availability of the Datastore.  The client are looking at Oracle
on Sun kit for the Datastore.  Despite their expertise on high availability
database solutions, I am still aware that the datastore can be easily
corrupted, i.e. running chfarm whilst the CMC is open...

My question is this... what would you advise for a 20,000 user Citrix farm
split approx. equally across some 10 countries?

Are farm failover solutions available?



Thanks in advance...

B



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