ibm.com: Notes/iNotes 8.5.2 scalability on Citrix XenApp white paper

December 14 2010

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This white paper provides an overview and recommendations for how to get the most from the IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2 client on the Citrix XenApp 5.0 server. Specifically, it shows that by tuning the environment, you can realize significant improvements when running the Notes client on XenApp. This is true for both the standard and the basic configurations of Lotus Notes. Moreover, the new support for Microsoft Windows 2008 SP2 by Notes 8.5.2, together with memory improvements, means increased scalability to even higher numbers than before at a much reduced cost. We also present the testing environment, tuning parameters, and the workflows that were executed to gather the scalability data on Notes 8.5.2.
Link: IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes 8.5.2 on Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0: A scalability analysis >

Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Notes and Domino 8.5  Add/View Comments [6]

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  1. 1  Charles Robinson http://www.cubert.net | 12/14/2010 11:41:11 AM

    Someone tell Vowe that it doesn't require a login to view! :-)

  1. 2  Peter Meuser http://itlab.de | 12/14/2010 11:55:59 PM

    Let's see how much the results of the white paper will also be effective in "real" world settings where Notes is not only used as mail client. Detailed tests will follow...

    BTW: Anybody out there who already moved his big Citrix farm to 2008/64-Bit?

  1. 3  Reinhard Steurer http://www.dachser.com | 12/15/2010 3:47:45 AM

    Good to see that Terminal Server (TS) (overall Citrix) is still on the focus of IBM !

    We currently move our users (11.000+) from Presentation Server 4.5 with Notes 7.0.1 to Xenapp 5 and Notes 8.5.1 Base Client. The main reason was the 2003 32 – bit environment. We tested it also with the Standard client and after 18 concurrent users the TS freeze at all.

    Even if we go to 2008 – 64 bit we will move as soon as possible to the Standard Client. The design and look and feel is state of the Art and I like it (and I’m sure all of our users will) very much!

    Hope for the future that the Client will be continually improved for the TS, there are some topics which I have in mind are still not good (cold start up time, local files on data directory, file server support, client installation guide on citrix (MUI), support new features [ID Vault], Quickr Connectors)

    Nevertheless it’s good to see that IBM don’t forget his terminal server customer which are probably more around Europe!

    Thanks at all!

  1. 4  Removed  | 12/15/2010 8:59:59 AM

    A really insightful comment has been removed by blog policy - no anonymous comments allowed.

  1. 5  Fred  | 12/15/2010 10:10:57 AM

    @3 "Design and look and feel is state of the art" hum well everybody can have its opinion.

    But the point is not there, I just wanted to say that we use Standard client 8.5.0 SP1 on Citrix on Windows 2003 32 bits, it was necessary to upgrade the memory (9Gb instead of 5Gb) but now 25 concurrents users (+MSOffice + home made data entry applications + some others) run fine so I'm surprised by your limit to 18.

    By the way, as you mention, the lack of support for connectors for QuickR on Citrix is also a pity. With that support we would have bought and implemented QuickR.

    Fred

  1. 6  Hans http://www.mortenson.com | 12/21/2010 12:21:45 PM

    Thanks for the post Ed. Looks like I've got some reading to do.

    I'm currently in the process of testing 8.52 standard and basic clients on xenapp 5 64 bit and it looks great so far.

    Please keep up the Citrix support.