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So it begins, I have been asked (finally) to get a XenApp 5.0 build prepared for our farm replacement at my place of work. The main reason for the effort is that PS4.0 is going end-of-life at the end of the year.
I’ve been reading up on the subject for a little while, having been responsible for some previous versions in our company: -
- Metaframe 1.8 on NT4
- Metaframe XPe on Windows 2000
- Presentation Server 4.0 on Windows 2003
The company has 100,000 employees and approximately 15,000 use the farm(s) at some point with 10% (1500) constantly logged on in peak hours.
The current PS4.0 farm (as did XPe) uses Oracle for the IMA datastore, but we are going to use SQL for the new farm. We have seen a number of issues with Oracle in our multi-datacentre model around replication [which led us to having to split the design into 2 farms] and as such decided to go to SQL and leverage some of the SQL expertise in our company. Oh yeah SQL is cheaper than Oracle too, which is a bonus!
So, what will I be concentrating on with this build?
- Windows 2003, 32-bit
- Windows 2003, 64-bit
- Windows 2008 (future phase)
- Web Interface, probably on 64-bit W2K3 (no W2k8 build avail in-house yet – pah!)
I hope to log all the findings that I come across in preparing for the build, which has to be enterprise-class, as resilient as possible and automated to the hilt.
By the way, all this assumes you already have a TS Licensing Server and a Citrix License Server.
I hope you get something out of these words to help you in your own endeavours…PL
