[THIN] Re: VMware & CPS 4.5
- From: "Dobry, Wes" <Wes.Dobry@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:35:52 -0500
Bingo.
I didn't mention, but I guess I should have. Your mileage may vary
considerably and it really should be tested in your own environment. I did,
however, want to express that in our environment we did see significant
improvements by upping the RAM in our presentation servers.
-Wes Dobry
(321) 843-5590
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Steve Greenberg
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 12:34 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMware & CPS 4.5
This is entirely dependent on application and system utilization. The
additional RAM gives you more user space memory but the 2GB kernel limit is
still there so in some cases it works and in others it does not
Steve Greenberg
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Dobry, Wes
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:36 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMware & CPS 4.5
We get about a 35% increase in users when tossing 8gb of RAM instead of 4gb in
a CPS4.5 server using PAE.
-Wes Dobry
(321) 843-5590
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jon Luchette
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:28 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMware & CPS 4.5
In general I have seen that 4GB of RAM is the maximum amount of memory that
Citrix boxes will efficiently use on a 32 bit Terminal Services Windows server
operating system. This has to do with the 2GB kernel memory limitation:
http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/The-4GB-Windows-Memory-Limit-What-does-it-really-mean-
As a result, there are two options if you want to use more powerful boxes with
much more RAM in a Citrix / TS environment, either run 64 bit windows terminal
servers, or virtualize with ESX. The customer did not have applications that
would have taken advantage of a 64 bit architecture, so the only other option
was to go with ESX and virtualize for them.
They made the decision on their own to not look at VDI as an alternative
solution...
On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Malcolm Bruton
<malcolm.bruton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:malcolm.bruton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
Jon
Silly question but why would you just not run the apps natively on the box
instead and isolate instead if you have app co-existence issues? Seems like
you could fit more users on again?
We have taken the decision to use VMWare for small apps (where we can't
isolate) of low user numbers but typically only dev as we don't believe it
scales as well on VMware for heavily used prod servers.
Malcolm
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[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf
Of Jon Luchette
Sent: 01 February 2008 14:53
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMware & CPS 4.5
I just set it up for a customer in a production environment: 2 HP DL380 G5
boxes, with dual quad core CPU's and 16 GB RAM, backended with an HP EVA 4000
FC SAN. We have 3 PS 4.5 virtual machines on each host getting 20 users on
each vm comfortably. They have a pretty heavy application load too (Oracle,
Lotus Notes, etc...) and they are publishing full desktops to all users on
WYSE SX10 thin clients. We did bring DRS automation down to manual. All in
all, so far so good!
HTH,
-Jon
On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Chris White
<Chris.White@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Chris.White@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Thanks for everyone's help/advice on this, most helpful.
Cheers,
Chris
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
TSguy92 Lan
Sent: Thu 31/01/2008 18:34
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMware & CPS 4.5
Our current production CTX environment = MPS 4.0, Win2k3 sp2 hosts on VMware
ESX 3.5.
Our standard VM build has 2 procs, 3gb ram and we average about 45+ user
connections per host. Our environment is published app based, which lets us
spread the load around a bit better, no full desktop. Physical boxes running
VMware are HP blades, 16gb ram, 4 proc. Dependant on app load and usage, (we
silo off the heavy use stuff) your mileage may vary.
That link Greg sent has some good recommendations; from my own experience:
- the vmware tools install by default adds a component into user profiles
"hgfs.dat" which can be a pain to deal with. (greg's article covered this).
Sort out how to handle this before allowing users to login.
- Use manual DRS automation if you have a Citrix specific cluster setup in your
ESX environment. Automated DRS vmotion during production hours with dozens of
users connected can hang up a VM.
We have virtual MPS 4.5 boxes in testing, but I can't say we've put any serious
user load on them yet.
HTH
Lan
On Jan 31, 2008 7:07 AM, Kelsey, John
<JCKelsey@xxxxxxxx<mailto:JCKelsey@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
We tried it in an ESX 2.5 environment and the performace was horrible.
Supposedly its been greatly improved in an ESX 3 environment but we haven't
gotten back to try it yet.
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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 08:58
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Subject: [THIN] VMware & CPS 4.5
Hi,
I've a customer who wants to run CPS 4.5 in a VMware ESX environment. This will
be for production.
Has anyone set this up in a live environment before? I've only ever set it up
for a dev environment. Any tips or recommendations? Should I discourage them
for doing this and use straight tin instead?
Thanks for any help,
Chris.
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