[THIN] Re: VMWARE and Citrix
- From: "Alexander Danilychev" <teknica@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:08:16 -0700
I have two ESX servers.
One VM - development, 7 (4 VMS per 2 CPU 2.6GHZ, 1GB RAM per VM) -
production. 3 of VMs are running MetaFrame XP on Win2K. Built all flavors of
Win2K images ? very easy to jumpstart new VM, test and drop changes or
delete ?used? image. Ghosting works best to transfer images between servers.
Although I did not run rigorous benchmarks, ESX servers (in my case)loose
about 25% to 50% in performance versus direct Win2K install depending on the
environment.
The only issue I had was networking -- hardcoding GB nics did not work. To
my surprise MetaFrame (MS Office XP, .Net tools) as well as SQL Server, IIS,
SharePoint Portal server perform quite well. NFuse Elite was tested as well
-- some instability was not associated with VMWARE.
We are buying GSX server now -- a better choice for development environment
when hardware compatibility and more connectivity choices are required.
Verdict? Perfect for development/testing environment. A good choice for
remote deployments (plenty of redundancy, supports clustering; makes an
unkillable system if coupled with Compact Lights-Out board). However VM
servers are not inexpensive -- use workstation (or several workstations) if
simple testing of deployment procedures or code is required.
ALEX
>From: "Brian Murphy" <bem9127@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [THIN] Re: VMWARE and Citrix
>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:25:06 -0500
>
>
>Yes. Only for a test environment.
>
>I'm using two DL380 G3 systems with VMWare Workstation 3.2.0 installed.
>I am running the guest OS's in bridged mode on a segmented
>(10.10.10.0/24)
>Test VLAN. I'm running the following as guest OS's between the two
>boxes.
>
>1. Primary AD Controller/DNS /License Server
>2. Second AD Controller /DNS
>3. Enterprise CA system
>4. Sub-CA system
>5. Nfuse 1.7 system
>6. CSG system
>7. STA system
>8. SQL Server (Data Store)
>9. Citrix Management Server (Data Collector, Metric Server, Print
>Driver Source, etc....)
>10. App Server
>11. App Server
>12. Win 98 Client
>13. Win 2K Prof Client
>14. Win XP Prof Client
>
>I've got another box running GSX Server but the eval died on me before I
>had a chance to
>Play around with it.
>
>I built the "base" image on a production VLAN so I could have all the
>Windows Updates,
>Latest patches, utilities, etc....... Create about 20 copies of this
>base and create your
>Guest os's.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Brian Murphy, MCSE, MCSA, CCA, CCNA
>Murphy Consulting
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Matt McKeehan
>Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 12:12 PM
>To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>
>Does anyone use VMWARE with their Citrix Environment?
>
>Matt Mckeehan
>Citrix LAN Supervisor
>Admin Office of The PA Courts
>PA Supreme Court
>(717)795-2063
>(717)514-9446 mobile
>
>
>
>
>
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