[THIN] Re: 5 user XP starter kit

  • From: "Brian Madden" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:48:53 -0500

All of my large scale load simulations have been with pure TS for the exact
reason that I can't get like 400 Citrix user licenses.

Customers ask me to test server sizing, and my "standard" answer is "sure,
but it'll have to be pure TS, no Citrix."

So this time I thought "I wonder how other people do load simulations using
Citrix?"

Brian

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-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mike Hiester
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:32 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: 5 user XP starter kit

Ok, I will bite. If you have often done this, how do
you not know the answer to this question??? <g>

Seriously, I can't imagine any public software company
giving away a large quantity of licenses for testing.
Publically held companies are under so much pressure
these days to make their revenue and profit numbers,
something like this would have be a very rare
exception. Otherwise, the management that made this
kind decision would not last long. 

BTW, since evals are per server, you could probably
use several evals in one farm to do your load
simulation.   I have seen evals for sale on
ebay.....LOL

>As a follow up, I often do large scale load
>simulations. Does anyone 
>know if
>Citrix offers some kind of license that lets me use
>hundreds of users 
>for
>load testing? Right now I either use my clients'
>licenses or I just 
>don't
>use Citrix and do the testing with pure TS and RDP.

>Brian

>Brian Madden

 

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