TScale for Citrix?

[HSESupport]

Hello folks, I'm just beginning to research TScale for Citrix. Just going through the white-paper's now and getting a "feel" of what it's all about. So far so good, but I'm looking for some real-world experience......so has anyone implemented TScale?
& I suppose the bigger question is if implemented does it come through on it's promises?

Cheers in advance

 

[mjbianco15]

We tried Tscale out last year when we built our new Win2000 Metaframe farm. We did see an improvement after a week or so (5-10 extra users); however, to us it wasn't worth it. We added another terminal server instead for the same price it would have cost to license the software.

 

[HSESupport]

Cheers for that
We're rolling out SAP v6.20 now (on top of an existing 5 major apps), this GUI is dog hungry for resources. Each instance of the .exe grabbing up to 40MB!

I was hoping that TScale might be able to alleviate the resource requirement.
I'm augmenting the farm with an additional 4 blades anyway, but still wanted to keep the SAP "sink-hole" as shallow as possible in terms of resources......

 

[TexExpat]

For what it's worth, there is another product you might want to look into. It may work better than Tscale for what you are describing. I tried out Aurema ARMTech on one of our Citrix servers after seeing it demonstrated. It seemed to have a good result, and I am currently trying to purchase it.

This product guarantees a "fair share" of resources to each concurrent process, but allows processes to use more that their share of resources when other processes are not needing resources. It dynamically allocates out resources to concurrent processes rather than imposing a static sharing. It will allow your "resource hog" application to use as much as it wants when other processes do not need resources, but will make the app give up resources when something else needs them. It was a rather impressive product.

The vendor that demonstrated this product also demonstrated Tscale at the same seminar, but ARMTech seemed to have more impact and was cheaper than Tscale.

Hope this helps.

 

[HSESupport]

Cheers for that folks!