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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.
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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