Eric Barro
ebarro at verizon.net
Wed May 21 13:24:57 CDT 2008
Rocky, The main advantage of virtualization is that you can configure a VM one time and reconfigure it and still be able to go back to any version you wanted to. In essence, ease of configuration as opposed to having to set up separate physical machines and making sure that every machine is setup the same way. So, if your app needed a specific configuration environment it would make sense to configure it once and be done with it. There's no issue with running an Access app as a published app in Citrix or Terminal Server. >From the user perspective they are accessing the shared resource over the network using a Citrix thin client layer. Citrix thin clients are essentially the equivalent of dumb terminals in the heyday of mainframes. In this scenario you don't have to install the app on their local machine. All you need is the Citrix thin client layer on their machine. The main issue with Citrix that I've experienced before is printing about 250 pages in one go. It crashes the server. Eric From: Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> Date: 2008/05/21 Wed AM 10:42:29 PDT To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: [AccessD] Virtualization D ear List: I had a dealer in Belgium note that virtualization is a big buzz word now and wondered how E-Z-MRP would do in that environment. I wrote back that I didn't know what aspect of virtualization he was thinking of in regard to E-Z-MRP. So he wrote back: "Re per virtualization... I'm just wondering, as I read E-Z-MRP can be setup as 'client-server', if the program is installed on a server, if there is a possibility to use thin clients to act as 'clients' and further, if the application can be installed on a Citrix server and be distributed and accessed as a 'published application'." E-Z-MRP is a straightforward FE/BE app with an mde on the front end and an mdb on the back end. How does this fare under Citrix? It would seem to be OK under a thin client setup except that it seems to me that would mean a lot more traffic over the wire. What should I tell him? MTIA Rocky Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/> www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/> -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com