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VmWare and Terminal server

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by mikelazz

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We are about to take on a project involving virtualizing most of the servers in our data center. The recommendation came up that we also virtualize our 2 terminal servers. Does anybody have any experience running virtualized termial servers?

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by maniacman

You can virtualize everything else, but it's absolutely not recommended to do it for Citrix or Terminal Servers due to the way they use paging files and other things. There is an awesome new product on the market called PlateSpin which can convert physical servers to virtual machine images or VMs' to other VM formats or VMs' back to physical server images. I suggest you check it out because this product is revolutionizing the virtualization industry.

by swaltner3

In my previous place of employment I virtualized hundreds of server (production and development) and the only ones we had real trouble with were Citrix servers. With even 15 users attached to a virtual Citrix server we had poor performance. We were using VMware ESX 2.5.3 and the advice of the time was that you would need at least two VMs for one Citrix server and they needed to be configured "just so" in order to work efficiently. Our conclusion at the time (1Q 2007) was not to put terminal servers in VMs.

by maniacman

Citrix will outright tell you that they don't support their Metaframe products running as a virtual machine, and VMWare will tell you they don't recommend running Citrix as a virtual machine because they've gotten a lot of support calls from people making a big stink about Citrix not running well as a virtual machine. If it's not supported, why even bother with it and risk all sorts of problems?

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