[THIN] Citrix Farm Re-Architect Ideas
- From: "Armstrong, Robert" <robert.armstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:16:03 -0500
Greetings,
The time has come for my company (more specifically - me) to redesign
the architecture of our Citrix farm. We currently host 11 different
applications on Metaframe XPe SP3 FR3. The farm currently runs on 13
Compaq DL360 G1 servers which host an average of 190 to 212 concurrent
users spread evenly across the 13 servers.
I'm ready to move forward with an MPS 4 upgrade and am writing to
solicit your opinions on re-architecting our whole Citrix environment.
I'm basically trying to figure out what the concensus would be on the
best method of hosting and delivering MPS based apps to our users. I
understand that this is a very broad question, but I'd like to know
(because I value your opinions) what strategy most of you would use (or
have used) when faced with this scenerio.
Some things I am considering.
1. Replace all 13 DL360's with a few higher end servers and run each
MPS4 server on VMWare's ESX. In this scenerio, the VMs could be hosted
on and could boot from IP SAN.
2. Replace all 13 servers with a few new high end servers, run MPS 4 on
them, and host more concurrent users per server. (I'm trying to cut
down on the number of physical machines due to power and cooling issues
in the data center)
3. Keep all existing 13 servers. Simply upgrade to MPS4 and spend the
budget money on software that would aid with printing issues (ThinPrint,
ScrewDrivers etc.) and/or performance issues (TScale etc).
Here are some of my primary goals.
1. Reduce the number of physical machines in the farm
2. Improve application performance for users
3. Improve printing performance and reduce printing related
maintenance.
Please let me know what your thoughts are. I'm certainly open to
recommendations and would like to hear your success stories.
Thank you.
Rob
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