MSiebenschuh
Well Known Member
RE: citrix and windows 2000 terminal services on clients --- do w
Not to fan the flames but let me also put this out there (I am not a
consultant I am the CNC here).
Put simply there is no way a "farm" can be a single point of failure. In
your instance the "farm" hasn't failed it has simply slowed down. EVERYONE
is still working.
As far as the code is concerned - if you are maintaining the code on all of
your fat clients like you should they should all have the same code at the
same time - thus if one box has bad code they all should. We do a weekly
PROD update. With my 26 TSE's I can rename the current PROD directory,
deploy a new full package and I'm done dealing with a couple hundred users.
If there is "bad code" I can roll back in less than 10 minutes. Unless you
have very savvy full client users that won't be happening.
Maintenance is indeed much better with Citrix because it is simply less
boxes to take care of (even for a small business (2 boxes (total $50,000) or
100 ($100,000 for cheap PC's) you figure it out).
Beyond this you need to look at all the other benefits a Citrix farm
provides - in our case we have 3 divisions running 3 different software's
(One World, World, Custom)all of them use the farm. They are now all
supported by a central back office rather than 3 back offices. You can also
maintain all the other apps your company uses much more efficiently (i.e.
Word, Outlook, etc. we know how many service packs this stuff gets!).
After running our Financial users (about 100) on fat clients for 1 1/2 years
I have finally moved them all to Citrix - guess what - less phone calls.
That is just my opinion but I find Citrix to be easier to troubleshoot,
maintain, and update (for ALL users not just local users).
Mark Siebenschuh
Not to fan the flames but let me also put this out there (I am not a
consultant I am the CNC here).
Put simply there is no way a "farm" can be a single point of failure. In
your instance the "farm" hasn't failed it has simply slowed down. EVERYONE
is still working.
As far as the code is concerned - if you are maintaining the code on all of
your fat clients like you should they should all have the same code at the
same time - thus if one box has bad code they all should. We do a weekly
PROD update. With my 26 TSE's I can rename the current PROD directory,
deploy a new full package and I'm done dealing with a couple hundred users.
If there is "bad code" I can roll back in less than 10 minutes. Unless you
have very savvy full client users that won't be happening.
Maintenance is indeed much better with Citrix because it is simply less
boxes to take care of (even for a small business (2 boxes (total $50,000) or
100 ($100,000 for cheap PC's) you figure it out).
Beyond this you need to look at all the other benefits a Citrix farm
provides - in our case we have 3 divisions running 3 different software's
(One World, World, Custom)all of them use the farm. They are now all
supported by a central back office rather than 3 back offices. You can also
maintain all the other apps your company uses much more efficiently (i.e.
Word, Outlook, etc. we know how many service packs this stuff gets!).
After running our Financial users (about 100) on fat clients for 1 1/2 years
I have finally moved them all to Citrix - guess what - less phone calls.
That is just my opinion but I find Citrix to be easier to troubleshoot,
maintain, and update (for ALL users not just local users).
Mark Siebenschuh