Before you go about reinstalling from scratch, I'd suggest setting up a VMware vSphere 4 box and install Citrix on it. You can download and install vSphere 4 using a 60-day evaluation for free. vSphere 4 has been tuned for improving performance with MS SQL, MS Exchange, Citrix and several other specific workloads.
I'd also suggest installing the VMware Tools included with vSphere 4 and use the VMXNET 3 NIC as it will yield the best performance and lowest CPU overhead. - David ----- Original Message ----- From: Haralson, Joe (GE Comm Fin, non-GE) To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: RE: Citrix MetaFrame Running on VM box - Thanks for your response Thanks to all for your reply. We are looking to reinstall citrix from scratch on the VM Host. I will let you know how it goes. Joe Haralson ( Office: (847) 598-6737 ( DC: : *8 837-6737 7 Fax: : (847) 585-5695 ( Cell: : (630) 337-8034 * e-Mail: [email protected] THIS E-MAIL IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, OR THE EMPLOYEE OR AGENT RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERING THE MESSAGE TO THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION OR COPYING OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. ANY INADVERTENT RECEIPT BY YOU OF SUCH CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION IS NOT INTENDED TO CONSTITUTE A WAIVER OF ANY PRIVILEGE. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS COMMUNICATION IN ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY TELEPHONE, AND DELETE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE FROM YOUR COMPUTER. THANK YOU. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Citrix MetaFrame Running on VM box If you P2V the server or indeed the template you are building from, you will see some issues. We have some boxes like this and once they go over ten users or so they get nasty. With a clean build you should get 30 or so However, some applications we use cause Citrix to run slowly, physical or virtual. 2009/6/1 Haralson, Joe (GE Comm Fin, non-GE) <[email protected]> Has anyone experience any issues with slowness after placing Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 on a VM Box? Joe Haralson Network Infrastructure Team ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
