Hi Stuart,

we have a hosted app using VMWare for virtualization and Xenapp 6.4 for presentation.

There are a few tricks. One is to have a ramdisk for tempfile storage on each box. We've tested on Nutanix and a highly optimized SAN-based system, and they didn't have the speed we need. We use MSSQL, and that is on a non-virtualized server with SSD drives for tempDB. If we were building it today, it would have SSD's for the data, also, but the tempdb gets hit the hardest, and is set up with adjusted (for reality) best practices. We have 6 virtualized servers on 3 hosts for that farm. How these things get set up is up to your Citrix/VM expert: I wouldn't advise doing this on one's own. If you want the name of our consultant, PM me and I'll provide it. He's in California, but everything he needs to do can be done remotely. We've been working with him off-and-on for 10 years. The virtualization people we've spoken to elsewhere have no idea what's involved with intensive database applications that write tempfiles locally, etc.

It works well. And isn't cheap.

Hank



>Hi
>
>I would appreciate any feedback I can get :-)
>
>I have a large system that needs to be moved to Windows Server 2012R2 (x64) and Citrix 7.5. The server is a Virtual one.
>
>Current it runs on Server 2003 x32,
>
>Does anybody have a system running on this version of Windows and/or Citrix Setup?
>
>Have you had any issues running the system on this version of windows?
>
>What hardware spec are you using for your setup?
>
>Are your servers virtualized?
>
>Has anybody tried running this in a load balance scenario with Citrix?
>
>Thanks in Advance