[THIN] Re: Input blade environment vs. ESX Virtual environmen t for Citrix

  • From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 17:04:17 +0100

I'd stick to physical servers for heavily loaded Citrix installations. For
lightly utilised servers, VMWare is untouchable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Pitsch [mailto:jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 June 2005 16:59
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Input blade environment vs. ESX Virtual environmen t
for Citrix


No way are you getting 3 -4 VM's on a 2U box AND get a decent amount
of users on them.

Jeff Pitsch

On 6/3/05, Schneider, Chad M <CMSchneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good point...part of what we are looking to do, is server space
> consolidation.
> 
> If I can get 3-4 servers (ESX) in a 2 U server, great.  If I can get 16
> servers (Blades) in 6U of space, great.  Then, the decision is
> administration, reliability, performance.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
> Of Dogers
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:52 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Input blade environment vs. ESX Virtual environmen t
for
> Citrix
> 
> On 03/06/05, Schneider, Chad M <CMSchneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No hardware purchases have been made....the decision on direction will
> > cause the purchase of hardware, whatever that may be.
> 
> So is it just for future expansion, or for a specific project? If
expansion,
> I'd probably play safe(ish?) and go with blades, if its a specific project
> then ESX might be a better choice.
> 
> The problem with blades, as people are saying more and more now, if the
fact
> they produce more heat than standard servers, so you need to ensure your
> data centre can take them, too.
> 
> Andrew
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