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Identifying Software and Hardware Requirements for MetaFrame XP

  • MetaFrame is an add-on product and requires Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition or Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, or Datacenter Server as the operating system.

  • When installing Windows 2000 Server, Terminal Services is not installed by default.

  • Do not install MetaFrame XP on a domain controller. If installed on the Windows 2000 Server family, users will not be able to log in without Log On Locally permissions.

  • The minimum requirements for MetaFrame XP are 75MB of hard disk space, 64MB of RAM for MetaFrame XP services and IMA, and a Pentium or higher processor.

  • 200MB of disk space is required to store all the ICA clients.

  • The Citrix Management Console is a Java applet and can be installed on a workstation as a standalone console. It does not require that MetaFrame XP be installed, but does require 25MB of disk space and 64MB of RAM.

  • ICA consumes 10-20KB of network bandwidth.

  • ICA runs at the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) Presentation Layer.

  • ICA can run on Windows and Windows-based terminals, handheld devices, DOS clients, Web clients, Unix clients, Mac clients, and OS/2 clients.

Performing Server Planning and Sizing Issues

  • The MetaFrame XP server performs 100 percent of the application processing.

  • User load, application load, network bandwidth, and location of the user all affect system performance.

  • A Typical User requires at least 4MB of RAM and a Power User requires at least 8MB of RAM. One Power User is equivalent to two Typical Users.

  • Disk space needed for MetaFrame XP will reflect the operating system, MetaFrame and its components, swapfiles, temp files and user profiles, applications installed, drivers, protocols, utilities, and registry size.

  • EISA and PCI buses are recommended because they support higher sustained data rates.

  • Databases that can be used for the MetaFrame XP data store are Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL, and Oracle.

  • Microsoft Access is recommended for small to medium server farms only, while Microsoft SQL and Oracle are appropriate for any environment.

  • Redundant server components, such as hard disks, controllers, and NICs, are recommended to provide fault tolerance.

  • Load balancing is not a fault-tolerant solution but a high-availability feature.



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CCA Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows Administrator Study Guide Exam 70-220
CCA Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows Administrator Study Guide (Exam 70-220)
ISBN: 0072193190
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 169

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