Citrix on an Oracle database? possible?

[JoshuaTree2]

Hi all,

is it possible to have Citrix XP FR2 - Farm on an oracledatabase 8.1.6.
In fact is at the installation anything approval.

Regards
JT

 

[ascotta]

Supported Databases are MS Access use this for small farms up to about 3 servers

Anything above that use either ORACLE or SQL which ever flavour you prefer/have.

I cannot say I have put it on an Oracle Database but I have put it on SQL many times and never really had any problems.

My advice would be to put it on a SQL/ORACLE every time if you can.

Cheers
Scott

 

[CitrixEngineer]

I've connected up dozens of Oracle Databases - 8.1.6 is the most "fun", and 9i is easiest - but they all work.

It's true, however, that SQL Server is much simpler - and you can use MSDE with FR3. I've even heard of people connecting to MySQL on Linux, but not tried it.

Any issues just post here.

 

[stalinx]

We use Oracle Database for our Citrix farms each farm has around 60+ servers and everything runs fine.

We are using Oracle 9i now but we used to use 8.1.6 and had no probs with either. If you aren't an Oracle expert I would recomend installing the whole oracle client on your servers as it's not so clear what component holds the correct Oracle ODBC connector that citrixMF needs.

Hope this helps.
=)

 

[CitrixEngineer]

In addition, ensure that you use at least the 8.1.7 client, no matter which database you use - the 8.0.6 is a nightmare - I've been told it isn't supported.

Oddly enough, I was asked to set up a connection to an Oracle 7.3.4 database yesterday. Using the 8.1.7 client it was actually fairly straightforward.

Hope this is helpful.