Part 1: The Effect of Citrix Presentation Server 4.0
Performance and scalability are essential for your terminal services farms. However, an understanding of the true scalability of the terminal services or Citrix Presentation Server environments represents the Holy Grail for terminal server architects planning rollouts in such environments. Unfortunately, most testing environments fail to comprehend many of the effects of the complex interactions in each of these environments, and do not accurately reflect the true scalability.
Therefore, we set out to conduct a series of experiments in THREE parts. This paper constitutes PART 1 of the series and is focused primarily on determining the overhead for terminal services clients running desktops. It compares Remote Desktop (RDP) clients and Citrix Presentation Server (ICA) clients while also taking into account the overhead for resources used by Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 (MPS4.0) once it is installed on a server.
PART 2 will focus on how RTO TScale handles memory optimization to substantially increase scalability for terminal server environments and PART 3 will focus on how RTO TScale optimizations scale virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the RTO newsletter to stay informed on new products, partner news, tips and our forthcoming Part 2, Part 3 whitepapers.
