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May switch I would like to know if anyone knows the good and bad of citrix and terminal server.?
Question : May switch I would like to know if anyone knows the good and bad of citrix and terminal server.?
We are currently running Citrix with 13 locations. It works but its slow. I am going to up the server from 2 gig ram to 4 gig of ram to see if this helps. What I was wondering is, Citrix is expensive, Using Terminal Server is cheap. There is no equiptment to buy and the license is cheap. I would like to know, if I go that route, will it be as fast, or slower than citrix?
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Answer by beni_gabor
anything using remote desktop is gonna be slower.
whats your bandwidth pipe between sites ?
How slow is citrix locally to the presentation server ?
are you using a multi-cpu server to handle more threads ?
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#2 written by 7S282 1 year ago
I’m running Citrix between 6 sites right now and am not having a problem with speed, except for one site which has horrible bandwidth problems and can’t do anything about it. If you are already using Citrix why would you stop using it? What version of PS are you on? Have you done any performance monitoring on the server yet to figure out what the problem is? How many users do you have on the server? Are you publishing apps or giving them the whole desktop? Here are a couple of articles on improving performance but I would say the first thing to do would be to add more memory to your systems
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Why not try both? You have to have Terminal Services licenses installed and enabled to use Citrix in the first place. Why not try it out and see if it fits the bill? I.e., just use the Remote Desktop Client instead of the Citrix ICA client to access the same server and see how it goes.
In my experience ICA is superior to RDP but Microsoft is always closing the gap. We use TS exclusively in a closed LAN environment and it works great but then we’re not trying to use it from a crackly dialup connection in the darkest reaches of Africa either. ‘Course ICA probably wouldn’t be very good either in that example.
In short, I wouldn’t look to RDP for a “solution” to your slowness issues. I’d look to the WAN (and, potentially, LAN) itself and performance monitoring of the Citrix servers first.
If the performance of the servers and network doesn’t appear to be the culprit you might look to WAN accelerators like Riverbed, Perabit (now Juniper), and Tacit WAFS, which are costly but may be worth it. I’m not sure how much they’ll help though with already compressed protocols like ICA and RDP. I’d certainly get some demo units before committing to a solution.