Hi Aaron,
Yes, feel free to contact me.
As of XD4 and XA6 (? - may have been 5) RDP is officially supported as a
connection method. In fact it's actually a configurable client
fall-back method in the web interface.
In short, yes. You can connect to XA or XD from Sun Rays, use the Sun
Ray Windows components, and have a real user experience with Citrix. The
user can also roam with that session to other devices that may allow for
a better ICA experience with an ICA client that is more modern that what
Citrix offers for Solaris.
As CJ notes, if you don't have that requirement of the other devices, or
the back-end terminal server farm management and granular load balancing
(really only make sense for publishing apps(, plain of WTS/RDS is hard
to beat for the cost.
On 3/22/11 4:34 AM, Aaron Browne wrote:
Hi,
We are running the same way as CJ mentioned - XenApp with full desktop.
Craig, should I still contact you directly?
Are you able to run Sun Ray connector in parallel with XenApp or are
they mutually exclusive? Does it basically depend on the type of client
connecting e.g. Citrix Client (ICA) vs SunRay Connector (RDP)?
Cheers,
Aaron
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Craig Bender <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
H CJ,
SRWC started supporting USB-R with terminal server in SRS 5.1. All
the versions of windows that SRWC supports, now supports USB-R.
http://wikis.sun.com/display/SRWC2dot3/About+USB+Device+Redirection
Note that USB-R under WTS is shared mode. Due to the USB subsystem
of windows, all devices can be seen by all users on the server.
Does XA really have USB-R for WTS? Pretty sure it is still ICA
mapping with a "plug and play" feature on the client that allows
devices to be connected post ICA-connection. But these devices are
still limited to what ICA mapping supports. AFAIK, only XD has true
USB-R.
On 3/21/11 7:13 AM, CJ Keist wrote:
Aaron,
We used to use Citrix XenApp server to deliver whole Windows
desktop to
the Sun Rays. We dropped that last year in favor of Sun Ray
connector.
In our testing the Sun Ray connector performed better graphic and
multi-media wise. Plus it's a big saving not having to purchase all
those Citrix licenses. Now there are couple of big loses in dropping
Citrix. Cirtrix load balancing is better, but so far the
Microsoft load
balancing is working for us. Next big lose was USB redirection.
The Sun
Ray connect doesn't suport USB redirection in Window 2008 or up.
That is
of SRSS 4.2 which we are running. Maybe some can comment whether USB
redirection is working in the latest release of SRSS?
The other fact with Citrix, is that it has to run a whole bunch
of other
crap processes with takes away resources from each of your terminal
servers, and ultimately the number of users you can put on each
server.
With Sun Ray connector there are no other extra processes running on
your terminal servers.
On 3/20/11 6:07 AM, Aaron Browne wrote:
Hi,
We are running our SunRay 2 and SunRay 3 units in kiosk mode
which in
turn runs a Citrix ICA Client for our users.
I would like to know if anyone else is running in this type of
configuration and if they can share any experience regarding
video and
audio performance.
Also, I am unsure if the SunRay multimedia redirection works
with
Citrix or if it is exclusive to the RDP client?
++
On our setup, video performance is limited to smaller resolution
videos and the audio can be choppy.
YouTube is reasonable sometimes and occasionally audio
doesn't work at
all.
I have found that Windows Media Player destroys audio
playback making
it crackly and annoying. Using a web Flash audio player
results in
quite a good audio experience.
Also, some tweaks to the ICA NumDataBuffers and
NumCommandBuffers
options resulted in smoother video and audio for our users.
Cheers,
Aaron
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