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Rene Vester has published an interesting article that contains some tips on how to implement state machines Terminal Server or Citrix Presentation Server on VMware ESX 3. The ' article was published on the website of Brian Madden and a collection of tips on how and where to configure a virtual machine to deploy applications.

Some of these configurations can be implemented locally on a VMWare Host (in case we decided to dedicate specific hardware to host virtual server Citrix Presentation Server) or can be applied to each virtual server (most common if you are using the DRS) .

We carry some of the suggestions, however, invite you to have a look at ' article .

• Disable Memory Sharing: Terminal Server on the machines memory changes very often and this makes the vmkernel to generate hash values ​​for memory pages and compare them with those already existing. This feature can be disabled per host (go to Edit Settings -> Options -> Advanced -> Configuration Parameters ... and enter sched.mem.pshare.enable = False) or at Host (under Advanced Settings -> Mem Mem setting ShareScanTotal = 0 and Mem.ShareScanVM = o)
• Use one CPU per virtual machine, as the bi-processor servers are carrying a large overhead, especially visible on Terminal Server machines
• Disable COM ports, LPT and USB (VMWare Server)

As the author points out at the end, remains to be evaluated as the Terminal Server machine virtualization is appropriate or not. But probably the answer will be different for every situation.

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