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hi

I'm putting some rough figures together for Management/Publishing Servers for 5.0 SP2. It will be a very large Citrix XenApp environment. Each XenApp server will have all App-V packages cached locally, to improve performance. However, I have no idea how many Management/Publishing Servers would be recommended and how much resources to assign them.

Currently, figures are:

640 XenApp servers
12,800 Users
500 apps (this is nothing but a wild guess)

The Management/Publishing Servers will be VMs. We have huge amounts of vCPU & vRAM available and as we have Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition, the number of Windows instances is not important. Assume Storage and SQL is well specced as well.

I'm guessing 4 servers with 4 vCPU and 16GB RAM. Is this anything like what you'd expect?

Thanks

Thursday, May 1, 2014 4:40 PM

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Hi 2pies,

Check the "App-V 5.0 Capacity Planning":

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn595131.aspx

Microsoft published today also the "Performance Guidance for Application Virtualization 5.0":

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn659478.aspx
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Hi 2pies,

Check the "App-V 5.0 Capacity Planning":

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn595131.aspx

Microsoft published today also the "Performance Guidance for Application Virtualization 5.0":

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn659478.aspx
- Edited by Nazim Demiroz Thursday, May 1, 2014 5:07 PM
- Proposed as answer by RorymonMVP Tuesday, May 6, 2014 7:28 AM
- Marked as answer by David WoltersModerator Friday, May 9, 2014 2:16 PM
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I would advise checking out the recommendations also but you are also not far off with your own estimate, I believe. As with any Service, you will want to get a good idea of how many concurrent users you expect and plan for further capacity to meet any future growth and then factor that into your thinking when reading the linked documentation.
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014 7:31 AM