> From: thin-bounce@freelists.org
> [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Matt Kosht
> Sent: 19 December 2008 15:59
> To: thin@freelists.org
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix - Harddisk Specification
>
> My 2 cents...
> If you size your farm to allow for the loss of 1 or more
> Citrix servers this isn't a big deal.
It's not just the sizing and dealing with a server being down - it's
bearing the transient, albeit potentially serious, pain of sessions
(work and data) dying or being lost, if a server crashes due to an
essential disk failing.
> It's not a big deal these days to lose a disk on a server
> that's practically identical to other servers in a load
> balanced farm. The users just get reconnected to another server.
Indeed, users can reconnect to another server. However, users / audience
/ usage may find that losing a session like that, when it can be fairly
easily avoided (ie employing the use of some hardware RAID controller
that tends to be either embedded or stock on many servers, and adding a
disk, having it monitored by management software, and having a bad disk
simply hot-swapped without incident) may not be that tolerable.
Users can and often do lose work and data, if a Citrix server just ups
and dies (or should that be downs and dies...).
Merry Christmas, btw.
Neil
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