Thursday, January 25, 2007
ESRI Citrix Whitepapers
Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:28:09 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  Comments [0] | 
Categories: ArcGIS Devt | ArcMap

I've been working on the System Architecture for a Citrix based enterprise GIS system, and in the process have dug up a bunch of ESRI whitepapers on the topic. If you run ArcGIS in a Citrix environment, these are some good reading...

 
System Design Strategies - ESRI Whitepaper (PDF Jan 2007)

This is the mothership for all ESRI system design topics. Check pages 8-8-3 for the WTS/Citrix server sizing models (partially shown below)

According to the model, you can run 45 ArcMap sessions on an Intel Xeon with 2 Dual Core 3Ghz (5160) CPUs and 16GB of RAM. In case your were wondering - you can pick up a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with this configuration for ~$10,000. And if you want to be really cool, you could go with the quad core CPU's for about ~$2,000 more. RAM starts to get pretty pricy when you go much above 16GB, so while you likely can't stuff 90 users onto a quad core system, for $2,000 more, your 45 users will have a lot more power at their disposal.

Citrix / WTS Support Overview - Whitepaper (HTML - Feb 2006)

This covers the main topics, including how to configure multiple products (ArcView/ArcEditor) to run on the same server.

Force ArcMap to close when logging off Citrix - ESRI Tech Article

Printing from ArcGIS on Citrix - ESRI Whitepaper (PDF - Oct 2006)

System Architecture to Support Printing on Citrix - Citrix Whitepaper (PDF - Nov 2001)

Metaframe Printing Optimization Techniques - Citrix Whitepaper (PDF - Feb 2004)

 

I'll update this post as I find more resources.

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