I would be looking at the disk queue using perfmon and making sure that there isn't a backlog of requests. As long as there isn't then there shouldn't be a major hassle with disk performance on a Citrix server.
It's definitely a case of YMMV though. I have seen some instances with applications that build a a database locally, copy data from another database server into it's database, use it and then wipe it at logoff. When you have 40 users on a server, it can blow the disks away. The same would go if you were running a VMWare server and had the disks locally for 10 servers sitting on top, the IO/sec requirements could be quite high.
Either way, take a look at what you are actually doing, and if required get some smaller disks then less large ones, this will give you more IO/sec.
Berny
2009/1/30 jond <x@jond.com>
I'm curious how everyone does raid on their citrix presentation boxes.
I've always done them in a simple Raid 5 setup(with online spare) with
5-6 15,000rpm drives.
It makes for a pretty smoking fast setup, but it's not the cheapest
setup in the world.
I just got a quote for the new box I'm building, and the drives cost
almost as much as the server.
Anyone doing anything like raid 1 on the OS and raid 5 on the data?
Anything more exotic?
Thanks,
Jon
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