Citrix Access Essentials

[RicardoBach]

We are thinking of buying and installing Citrix Access Essentials for 20 light users. It seems to be a good "lite" product, bundled with Terminal Services licenses. One consultant has suggested a HPDL360 G4P, with extra RAM *to 4GB), extra processor and RAID1, SCSI. Any users of this product out there. Suggestions/pitfalls..... gracias

[Igor Karasik]

I think for 20 light users DL360 G4 with described configuration will be enough, but it depends on kind of applications you run.

You can see
"HP ProLiant Sizer for Citrix MetaFrame XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services"
http://tinyurl.com/7n9qe
and "Microsoft Office 2003 scalability with Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 on HP ProLiant servers in an HP SBC environment"
http://tinyurl.com/8n4yb
(HP passport required in order to see these links)

Regarding "It seems to be a good "lite" product, bundled with Terminal Services licenses" - check if windows 2003 TS is not enough for your needs.

[Alan_152]

20 concurrent users on a dual dl360g4 and 4gig is pushing things just a little bit for either Terminal Services or Citrix.

The last time I worked with a production Citrix setup (pushing just MS-Office apps only, not a full desktop, to a client web browser), a usable server setup required about 1/4 of a P3/500 CPU and 100Meg RAM on the server.

New Market CBT (http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:4xKlo4EEsBMJ:www.newmarketinc.com/resources/Delphi_TSServer_Requirements.pdf+citrix+server+system+requirements&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6) actually calls for a P3/800, 2Gig, and 18Gig duplexed storage for 21-40 users. I don't know what New Market's CBTs are like, but I tried running a full CBT (test, audio, video, printer redirection, everything) from a setup similar to this using Windows Terminal Services as a demonstration, and it ran full-out with just 3 users.

What is Citrix recommending for your apps and user load? What apps do you intend on sending over?