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At 14 NOV 2002 12:45:01PM Ken Procious wrote:

Networking Products

need information on the number of active cleints that can be run on a citrix server with openinsight. Max users and still achieve good performance

thanks

At 14 NOV 2002 03:03PM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:

Ken -

OpenInsight 16 or 32 bit?

Are the file servers Windows NT/2000 or Netware?

What is the workstation client OS ?

What is the build on the Citrix server?

Are you running 10 mbit or 100 mbit links?

Without these details the benchmarks are meaningless.

Steve

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At 15 NOV 2002 03:01AM Tony Marler@Prosolve Software (UK) wrote:

Ken

It is very dependant upon the type of use and there is a lot of setup details that it is vital to get correct to ensure maximum performance.

Large selects and reports can have an adverse effect, whereas record data entry is less expensive.

That being said we have setup over thirty of our customers on Citrix of various flavours and as a rule of thumb a single PIII 1GB RAID server box (we use Dell PowerEdge if given the choice) will support 15/20 sessions ok (this is based mainly on OI 16bit and/or AREV sites). The Microsoft figures should be ignored!

Load balanced solutions are very effective, especially when you have a mix of user types as Citrix will spread out the users based on performance cost rather than simply number of sessions.

Tony

At 15 NOV 2002 08:16AM Ken Procious wrote:

Servers for Openinsight 32 bit will be Windows 2000 LH Service 2.1

Citrix servers would be 2 processor 1.26 ghz with at least 2 gb memory

Network would be 100 MB ethernet.

Client workstations would be Windows XP

Thanks

At 15 NOV 2002 05:42PM S Smith wrote:

Ken,

It all looks good.

You're running OI32 which is not processor hungry.

You're running fast links.

You're running fast dual processors

You're running with lots of RAM.

We'd anticipate 50-60+ users before contention became an issue. If we had over a hundred users we'd be fairly confident with this setup.

Pay extra attention to virus checkers (*.OV files) and background tasks, as well as printer spooling setups. Network card consistency also provides advantages in terms of network segment loading.

Steve

The Sprezzatura Group

World Leaders in all things RevSoft

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