[THIN] Re: VMware & CPS 4.5
- From: "Jon Luchette" <jon.e.luchette@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:53:17 -0500
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>
wrote:
> Thanks for everyone's help/advice on this, most helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of TSguy92 Lan
> *Sent:* Thu 31/01/2008 18:34
> *To:* 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> 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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> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> > Behalf Of *Chris White
> > *Sent:* Thursday, January 31, 2008 08:58
> > *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > *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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