[THIN] Re: Opinion - homogenous farms or silo'ed
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:59:22 -0700
The application isolation and performance management features of 4.0 may
very well change this landscape considerably. If these features prove out
well, then the need to silo should be dramatically reduced. So, the answer
may vary depending on whether or not you plan to use 4.0
I know with 3.0 that we have had very good experience NOT siloing when using
Softricity's SoftGrid product. If application isolation works as advertised
it will allow a similar benefit. Add to the CPU process controls and memory
optimization and me may just reach the holy grail of "Any Application from
Any Device over and Any Connection" plus "Running on Any Server" :)
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd. suite D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
(602) 296-0411 fax
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Ron Jameson
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:00 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Opinion - homogenous farms or silo'ed
I have a question in the midst of a clients restructuring of terminal
services. Currently, a 2 server citrix farm was added 3 months ago that
silo'ed the companies critical applications (8 of them) in order to handle
the load of the users (PS3.0 advanced). Users logged into a plain MS
Terminal server and accessed the citrix published apps thru the terminal
server. Why you ask? We could not change the terminal server design until
a slower time - plus, the terminal server houses an additional 20 programs
that are not on the citrix farm. So in the end, users run in there TS
desktop session and also run the citrix published apps.
We have an opening of time to redo this because we had a problem with the
speed of the published apps thru the terminal server on a WAN side (could be
the ICA to RDP - still would like to figure out if this is a
culprit) even though on the LAN side it was fine. So, in most opinions
- is it better to create a farm of homogenous servers or in this case, keep
a login Citrix server to handle the 20+ programs and silo the critical apps
to the farm using published apps?
Opinions? Comments?
Thanks in advance..
Ron Jameson @ Hamlin Technologies
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