Yes agreed, I would only use it as a backup scenario. All of my TS's are on actual hardware. While we are on the subject has anyone tried publishing a VM using the vmware player as a one off for a remote workstation access yet? Jim ----- Original Message ---- From: Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:52:26 AM Subject: [THIN] Re: [THIN] But you have to admit that they will get less response and less users on a VM than by going direct to hardware. Unless these are lightly used TS boxes, VMWare is just not a good fit. Jeff Pitsch Microsoft MVP- Terminal Services On 1/5/06, Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ESX 2.5 has a workload setting for Citrix/TS that should be set when creating the machine that helps. See how to set up the virtual machine properly for this at: http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/admin/esx25admin_newvm_vms.html Did you do it that way?. and here is another one on tweaking... http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/admin/esx25admin_improveperf.html Jim ----- Original Message ---- From: Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:40:16 AM Subject: [THIN] Re: [THIN] Terminal services is not a good match with VMWare at this time. You won't get near the response times as being on direct hardware. Jeff Pitsch Microsoft MVP- Terminal Services On 1/5/06, Roberto.Casagrande@xxxxxxxxxx <Roberto.Casagrande@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote: Does anyone has any information in relation to tweaking a Terminal Server OS in order to work as efficiently as possible on a VMWARE ESX v2.5 box? We are finding that response times for our clients applications are coming up significantly slower than with a standalone configuration of the same box. Any advice would be appreciated.