Citrix Presentation Server

[Jeff7181]

Kinda random question... anybody know what kind of hardware it would take to have a Citrix Presentation Server providing Internet access using Internet Explorer to about 1,000 clients? Not talking about bandwidth, but the actual hardware the Citrix Presentation Server runs on.

 

[Nothinman]

I believe Citrix has some sizing tools or at least some equations on their site. But IE's kind of a mixed bag because CPU and memory usage varies extremely wildly with it depending on the site(s) that you're visiting.

 

[Jeff7181]

Hmm... well... are we talking one or two stout PowerEdge servers? Or a whole rack of them?

 

[Nothinman]

If you buy Dell you'll need at least 3 to make sure that one's up all of the time. =)

 

[Bashbelly]

dont quote me but if I remember right it was something like 50 users per server (with capacity to handle 100 max). So yea you are looking at a humongous server farm of 10 (maxxed out ) to 20 (recommended) servers to handle 1000 (concurrent) users.

 

[Nothinman]

Those numbers are probably for more than just IE since most places that pay for Citrix also want to run Office and probably some crappy custom apps.