[THIN] Re: Citrix Farm performance over WAN
- From: Magnus Hjorleifsson <magnus@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:10:01 -0400
Is your file server windows 2008 and Citrix servers 2003 or vice versa?
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On Jul 5, 2011, at 12:27, "Andrew Wood" <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Depends what your root cause of “SMB bottleneck” if its “back end file
> server” its unlikely this configuration is going to help.
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> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Angela Smith
> Sent: 03 July 2011 07:17
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Citrix Farm performance over WAN
>
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>
> Hi
>
> We currently have 30 XenApp 5 Servers split between 2 Sites. Sites are
> connected by Gig Links. At present we use Zone Preference and Failover and
> Site A is Active only. Site B is for Disaster Recovery only. Site A is
> running at around 75% utilisation according to Citrix Load Evaluator. As per
> my previous emails we are having issues with SMB bottleneck. I am
> considering removing Zone Pref and Failover and making Site B active also.
> Therefore all XenApp servers get utilised which will half the resource
> requirements on my servers and hopefully remove any bottlenecks.
>
> Can anyone see an issue with running with such a config. XenApp Servers in
> site B will need to cross the Gig link to connect to File Server/Web
> interface but on a gig link I think should be OK. Any pro's/con's with this
> approach?
>
> Thanks
> Ang
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