[wplug] Citrix

[George Larson]

Thanks everybody!

2009/3/21 Ted Rodgers <ted.d.rodgers at gmail.com>

> I used citrix metaframe presentation server pretty extensively for
> awhile, mostly on the admin side of things.  It's interesting in that
> it can be run to serve out and load balance both Windows and *nix
> applications to hosts clients running any OS.  Overall, it was not bad
> at all, particularly for serving out from Windows servers.  Their
> management tools were very nice and added a lot of features to normal
> Windows servers.
>
> The client side of things was alright, too.  Their ICA client
> integrates perfectly with Windows clients and pretty well with clients
> running Gnome.  Other Linux desktops are supported less well when it
> comes to integration and by default gave a weird ugly panel with the
> application icons on it.  With some hacking on the config it did work
> well and looked nice, nearly as nice as under Gnome.  The Mac client
> was pretty aweful looking out of the box, but could probably be
> customized to look better as well.  The downside to hacking the
> configs is that it was pretty poorly documented even though many
> options appeared, although were commented, in the config files.
>
> The major drawback with using Citrix is that from my experience they
> really really push you to set it up using both a Windows domain and to
> use IIS to serve it out.  It does work with Apache, too, though.  And
> *nix servers can do the serving; with some tweaking any kind of backed
> can do the client authentication, too. Another very nice feature is
> the drag and drop capabilities between your client and the server
> storage servers.  Even on *nix and Mac, any directory can be mapped to
> any location you have access to in the Citrix farm.
>
> One major pro of Citrix is that as long as you use one of their
> prefered setups, their support is top notch.
>
> My experience with Xen has been less, but it worked alright when I
> used it.  Their are are other easier virtualization technologies out
> there.
>
> If you or your environment are interested in Microsoft technologies,
> Citrix is not a bad route to go.  It fixes a lot of quirks people get
> when using a normal Windows server in Application Server mode.  But,
> there is always the fact that Microsoft owns a whole lot of the Citrix
> company, so that is always a factor.
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