[THIN] Re: XenApp 4.5 - 32bit or 64bit?

64-bit allows for a couple of things:

                Greater scalability.  Web apps can be memory intensive. Weird, but true.

                You’ve bitten the 64-bit bullet.  Starting with 2008 R2 the server OS is 64-bit only.  You’ll have to go 64-bit at some point in time.  Either now or later.

                64-bit OS on  a 64-bit Hypervisor.  Less overhead.

 

For the most part,  here is the direction I’ve been going in:

                Infrastructure Roles are all 64-bit

                Core XenApp servers are 64-bit

                Siloed 32-XenApp server for those apps and services that will not run on a x64 platform.

 

Joe

               

 

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Angela Smith
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:39 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] XenApp 4.5 - 32bit or 64bit?

 

Hi

Im about to build a new farm based on Windows 2003/XenApp 5.  Im not sure if I should use 32bit or 64bit for the OS.  80% of our Applications are Web Based.  The others such as Office 2003 do not come in 64bit.

Is there any benefit in using 64bit Windows 2003 for mainly web based Apps?  Also is there any benefit in using 64bit for Web Interface servers?

Thanks
Ang

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