Terminal Services with Citrix or no?

April 24, 2008

Hi All,

We have built a small TS farm of 5 servers running AdvServer 2003, with 50

CALS a peice, and a hardware load balancer in front to spread out the RDP

sessions among the 5 servers.

The server are 'serving' one application and IE to a max of 200 users,

usually about 100 on.

From three different geographic locations, we see horrible RDC disconnects

(the blue box).

I've read through Vera Noest's site and some of the links regarding Citrix

vs. just Terminal services, and I believe that since we are serving only one

application to so few users (comparitively) TS should be able to handle it?

Since everyone connects across Lan-to-Lan VPN's via the Internet, I realize

the wildcard that is the Internet could (and does) play heaviliy on how the

performance is, but RDP seems forgiving enough not to disconnect when

bandwidth is low, only if connectivity goes away (or packets are being

dropped excessively).

Can anyone comment on should it be possible to run this sort of environment

without seeing disconnects? Would Citrix on top help this? Performance is

great outside of the disconnects...

Any thoughts appreciated.

Edward

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