Server 2008 Terminal Services on ESX

[JohnnyBravo]

Just wondering if anyone is using or has performed any type of testing with the new Terminal Services environment hosted on ESX and what sort of performance \ issues \ benefits etc have been seen. I know that Terminal Services 2003 or Citrix PS for that matter didnt scale too well but with 2008 I wondered whether this was different as well as running on 64 bit??

I see that Citrix are pushing Xenapp5 on Xenserver so was wondering if there are enhancements in the 2008 OS that would improve the scaling?

Any information or pointers on this would be great

[dennes]

While i still have to back this up with some numbers/evidence, preliminary testing (and after migrating our own 2008 TS to ESX) has made me believe 2008 scales a whole lot worse than 2003, which didn't run that well either. My testing is with a 32bit 2008 Standard VM, with 4GB of RAM assigned. Haven't tried x64 yet.

[williambishop]

From the sources I have heard from (and my own experience), 2008 doesn't scale as well as 2003 did either physical or virtual.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Moved to Virtual Machine and Guest OS forum.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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