[THIN] Re: Farm design assistance
- From: "Roger Riggins" <roger.riggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:26:13 -0500
Can you consolidate your data to one location? Then you could have all
of your app servers at the same location for easiest administration and
ease of use for the end users. All users at both locations could run the
same apps, then.
Roger Riggins
Network Administrator
Lutheran Services in Iowa
w: 319.859.3543
c: 319.290.5687
http://www.lsiowa.org
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Evan Mann
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:16 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Farm design assistance
Need some assistance. Here is what I have
2 locations connected via point-to-point T1
Location 1 has 2 apps servers and a data zone collector, and citric
access gateway
Location 2 currently has 2 app servers, but I have an available server
for a data zone collector
Users access Citrix via PNAgent or WI through the access gateway at
Location 1. If they have an app running from Location 2, it goes across
the PTP T1. Prior to any Citrix loads, that PTP T1 has < 5K/sec steady
usage. Random spikes during times of administration, so I think it will
be enough bandwidth for the small user load.
With the goal of ease of management , and saving some cash, I put the
servers in location 2 in the same zone and farm as those in location 1.
The problem I'm running into is this, I want some users to run their
apps off the servers at location 2, and some to run their apps at
location 1. This is an issue for common pps like MS Office, but not for
unique apps. I can get around this by publishing these apps twice, with
2 different names. However, I'm prefer not to do that, because if I
have to use the non-standard name for a program or folder, when the
users go to look for the shortcuts on their desktop (PNAgent users),
they may overlook them, or get confused, causing training issues I
prefer to avoid. Yes, this is not a huge issue, but the point of this
post is to try to avoid this as one of the critera.
I want to keep the single entry point via the access gateway at location
1.
I ended up with the setup I have because I didn't think about the
application issue, and it finally hit me today. I took this route
because it seemed like the simplest management route.
Can I accomplish my goals given my criteria and resources as defined in
this post?
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