[THIN] Re: Turning on Windows Search on XenApp servers
- From: James Rankin <kz20fl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:14:58 +0100
That sounds like an idea, provided I can enable the Windows Search service
without actually selecting a drive. I'm not interested in the local drives
at all - it's a network drive where the users will be searching, so
effectively we simply want Windows Search to work in non-indexed network
drives only, completely ignoring (and also not indexing!) the local drives.
Cheers,
JR
On 21 October 2014 14:07, Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I haven't tested this and I am not full up on my coffee yet, but i think
> this gets disabled because Windows search is going to index all the files
> on the disk. Thinking about how PVS works, this will end up causing the
> entire image to stream as the index service does its thing. Not good and
> it kind of defeats the purpose.
>
> If your users don't need to search that drive, you might be able to get
> away with changing the settings to skip the system drives. I'm not
> entirely sure that's possible but it seem like it should be. Maybe it
> would work if you let it index prior to capturing the disk for PVS.
>
> Turn it on for a while and see what you notice. If you don't see your
> storage get hammered and your disk cache doesn't explode, you should be
> ok. Are you using cache in ram with disk overflow? That will give you the
> best steady state iops performance.
>
> Greg
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:55 AM, James Rankin <kz20fl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a requirement for users to be able to search in file contents from
>> published versions of Windows Explorer.
>>
>> However, as these are PVS images, it seems that the PVS Device Optimizer
>> turns off the Windows Search functionality which is needed to allow
>> searching for keywords in file content (I've tested by reinstalling the
>> Windows Search Role Service and this allows the search to function as
>> required)
>>
>> My question is, how much of a performance impact are we likely to see by
>> enabling Windows Search on PVS imaged XenApp servers? Would it be
>> recommended to enable it, or is there another way to enable this
>> functionality for the users?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *James Rankin*
>> ---------------------
>> RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization
>> Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization
>> http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
>>
>
>
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*James Rankin*
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RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization
Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization
http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
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