[THIN] Re: Citrix WAN design - the ultimate design

I always had a centralized print server in the rack next to my Citrix servers but we were a 100% thin client operation at the time at the remote sites.  We used linux based thin clients from Neoware and local printers were setup as LPD devices on the thin client and then added to the print server like any other network printer.  As fas as the clients were concerned, it was a network printer.  This was a campus environment and people liked to print things to other people's printers to save themselves from walking around.  By treating everything like a network printer, we were able to do that.

in that situation, I only needed drivers on my Citrix servers and print server.  The clients had nothing.  I also controlled the printing purchases so we only had about three or four different models to support out of a few hundred printers.

If you're going to have fat clients, then they are going to need a chunk of bandwidth just to be alive and on the wire for domain communication, updates etc so your 4MB pipe is probably about right.  Wanscaler is probably worth exploring too.  Citrix will loan you one and help you set it up and test.  Then you will know if it will work out or not.  But they're expensive and you need one on each end.  30 of those will cost you a small fortune.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Angela Smith <angela_smith9@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi

80% of the apps will be ICA based.  Other 20% local Apps.  No Thin Clients, Windows XP fat client PC's in each site.  For 100 users, how did you setup printing?  Eg Citrix Universal Printing?  Local office Print Servers or centralised Print Server?
 
Thanks
Ang

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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:24:33 -0500
From: gareese@gmail.com
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix WAN design - the ultimate design

i ran about 100 users per site off of 1.5 MPLS circuits and it was great.  If you are going to be running pure ICA traffic to thin clients, I wouldn't worry about wanscaler but I would prioritize port 1494 on the links. 

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Angela Smith <angela_smith9@hotmail.com> wrote:

HI

I have the fortunate situation where I have the opportunity to redesign our company WAN links / Citrix design.  Is there a best practice for numerous small branch offices (10 - 40 users)?  We have 30 sites around the country connected via frame relay links.  If you had the opportunity to design your farm from new how would you do it??.  Application use is fairly simple (Office, Outlook etc).  Im not looking for assistance on Citrix farm numbers, more high level..  This is what Im thinking:

4Mb WAN links from Head Office to all sites (direct, not via other branches)
Centralised Print Server in Head Office
Citrix Presentation Server 4.5
Tricerat ScrewDrivers for Printing


Would this be a good start?  Would anyone add Citrix WANScalers also or would 4Mb links be sufficient for sites with 40 users or less?

Am I on the right track?

Thanks
Ang
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