[THIN] Re: Citrix Farm Re-Architect Ideas
- From: "Mike Semon" <msemon@xxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:12:02 -0600
Upgrading to Windows 2003 /PS 4.0 will certainly accomplish getting more
users per server and should improve application performance (depending upon
applications). Using VMware and utilizing VM's could certainly help you
reach this goal if designed properly. What is the resource utilization on
your current servers? We have been pleased with the performance of blade
servers in our environment. I would vote for option 3 then 1. Option 2 may
have greater impact on your environment If one goes down.
-Mike
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Armstrong, Robert
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:16 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Citrix Farm Re-Architect Ideas
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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