Notes 8.5/Citrix XenApp scalability white paper

March 19 2009

The Notes performance team has published an updated whitepaper covering scalability of the Notes 8.5 client on the Citrix XenApp server....

This white paper provides an overview of, and recommendations for, how to get the most from your IBM® Lotus® Notes® client on the Citrix XenApp server. In particular, we show that, by tuning your environment so that you get the most from your applications, you can realize significant improvements in running the Lotus Notes client on XenApp. This is true for both the standard and the basic configurations of Lotus Notes.

Moreover, with the addition of 64-bit Citrix XenApp server support for the Lotus Notes client in 8.0.2, you can scale to even higher numbers--well over 100 users--at a much reduced cost. Also presented are the testing environment, tuning parameters, and the workflows that were executed to gather the scalability data using the 8.5 version of the Lotus Notes client.
Link: ibm.com: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 on Citrix XenApp 4.5: A scalability analysis >

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  1. 1  David Leedy http://www.lotusnotebook.com | 3/19/2009 7:07:16 AM

    This is a good guide. We had looked at the first version when that came out. I THINK some of the information on the Basic client is new, but I'm not sure.

    We recently upgraded our server farm to Notes 8.5. Unfortunately we had to go with the Basic client because the Standard Client is almost unusable running at 256 colors. For whatever reason the Java/Exclipse stuff is unviewable at 256 colors and we can't go higher due to the bandwidth hit to remote locations.

    The Basic client is working well though.

  1. 2  Matthias  | 3/19/2009 7:11:00 AM

    Does the 8.5 client also run on a 4.0 presentation server? (yes, i know it is not supported)

  1. 3  Neil Davis  | 3/19/2009 8:47:21 AM

    Looking forward to reading this, we implemented the notes from the article published for 8.0.2 (around Lotusphere time) and are currently deploying 8.0.2 FP1 on Citrix.

    Early days with only 100 (of 10,000) across - we are seeing 25 users/server giving usable responses so will be interested to see what benefits 8.5 will bring us on the Citrix platform.