I'm dubious that appdata redirection causes performance problems in the real world. If your file servers have 100mb Ethernet and two spindles of local disk, ok, maybe you'll see problems.
If your file servers have gig Ethernet and backed by a SAN with dozens or hundreds of spindles, I'm going to venture that the hit from appdata is fairly trivial. Until I see real numbers from real systems were this is causing performance problems, I'll call this FUD on the part of profile management solution vendors. From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 7:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AppData - to redirect or not to redirect? Speaking mainly about RDS/XenApp/SBC platforms, I'm wondering what the list's general opinion is on using Folder Redirection for AppData? The general feeling (from my point of view, anyway) seems to be that it improves logon time, but creates a real problem with performance. I was wondering what everyone else's opinion is on it? I generally try to use a third-party solution that avoids having to make this choice, but I have a couple of clients where I appear to be at loggerheads with what other consultants are telling them. All comments would be welcome. Helge Klein did a decent write-up about it here http://www.sepago.de/e/helge/2010/05/31/should-appdata-be-redirected-or-left-in-the-user-profile which seems to bear out a bit of what I was thinking. Thanks, -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
