Tom, I ran 500 Sun Rays with the ICA client for a couple of years. All my Experience is with Solaris SPARC, and we had no problem with performance. We did test the Java Citrix client, but it did not work as well the Solaris client.
Just for your info, we dropped Citrix because rdesktop came out and supported 16 bit color and audio. This really reduced or TCO. We also have three T2000's and seven (5)4600 (2)4600m2's running ESX 3.0.1 with 400 XP Pro VM's. The VM's are access with the uttsc Sun Windows connector via RDP. We are running really intense software with good results. We are also in the process of building a 570 DTU VM setup with 9 4600m2's. The T1000 and T2000 are hands down the best Sun Ray servers I have used. I cant wait to see what Sun does with this product line next. I would be more than happy to talk about you about the pro's and con's for each of your options. Please E-mail me direct. Thanks Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Stanley Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SunRay-Users] ICA client choices I need to set up a Sun Ray proof of concept that includes some users connecting to a Citrix server. As I see it, I have 3 choices: 1. Run SRS on Solaris SPARC and install the Citrix client for that platform. It is two revisions behind Windows and Linux, but I assume that is not a big deal. 2. Run SRS on Linux and use the Citrix client for Linux. I¹m a lot more comfortable with Solaris, but this could be done. 3. There is a Citrix Java client. It cannot be installed on the SRS, it has to be loaded dynamically from a web server, presumably one running on the Citrix server. It would probably put high resource demands on the SRS and may be a bit complicated to set up, but it is an option. Option 1 is a problem with proof of concept because the whole thing is running in VMs on an x86 box (SF X4600). In production we could go with T1000 or T2000 Sun Ray servers. Does anyone have any experience with option 3, the Java client? I don¹t know much about Citrix administration, so I¹m not sure exactly how this would work. As I mentioned, I¹m also worried about starting up a Java VM for each Sun Ray session. Thank you for any suggestions. -Tom _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
