Best practices for Citrix and OneWorld

Hello friends

I asked this before as well, but could not get any response. I am too new in
Citrix and in JDE,
and on the test basis I have to install Citrix and use JDE application.

I want to know the best practices for Citrix and one world XE? We are having
OW Xe SP 22_1, SQL 2k SP 2,
Citrix Xe Fr 3 (I will install) on Dell PowerEdge 6600 dual processor with 4
GB.

My worries are

should I map the server drives?
Should I use roaming profile? any advantage or disadvantage, if yes how to
do this any white paper?
How many max. citrix users are recommended for OW Xe? We will have maximum
50 users.
Can I use other applications on my Citrix box with OW application?
Any other issues or tips (if someone can point me)?

Thanks

Hi,

My recommendations are (you can find most of these ideas on JDE white
papers) :

1) Don't map server drives, because JDE local licensing processes looks for
C: disk. Let server disks be C:, D:, etc.
2) There are some discussions on roaming profiles, specially related to WAN
issues between your Citrix farm and your Domain Controllers.
I prefer to use local profiles (on the Citrix boxes), however you'll find
other guys that recommend you to use roaming profiles.
3) Number of users per box depend on what you run. Typically, you need 1 CPU
every 10-15 users, 60 Mb RAM per user.
In order to support 50 users, you would need a server with 4 CPUs and 3 Gb
RAM.
Nevertheless, I recommend you to have 2 servers in order to achieve
redundancy and load balancing.
4) You can (but I don't like it...) install other apps on the Citrix box.
I've seen installations with 150 users running OneWorld Xe plus Lotus Notes
5.0 client plus MS Office 2000 and they run fine; but... they're
using 4 servers with 4 CPUs and 4 Gb RAM each. In this case, I recommend you
to install first these 3rd party apps (such as Office and Lotus)
and let OneWorld Xe client be the last app. to install. This way you'll
reduce DLL overwriting.
5) Don't be cheap on RAM and CPU. Citrix performance will suffer a lot from
disk paging.
6) Before going live, try printing at least once on every client printer.
There are printers whose drivers don't run very well on a Citrix
environment,
I had some bad experiences with inkjet printers.

Regards, Sebastian Sajaroff

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Thanks SSAJAROFF

Your recommendations will defiantly help me.