Installation guide

34 Implementing Windows Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame on IBM ^ xSeries Servers
Figure 4-4 MetaFrame server consolidation using x440 and VMware
To ensure there is equivalent redundancy in the final design, three x440 servers are located in
one office with another three x440 servers located in another office. By having more than one
x440 server at each location, we consolidate the existing MetaFrame environment but do not
introduce a single point of failure.
The consolidation is achieved by installing the first virtual server with Windows Server 2003
and Citrix MetaFrame XPe. It is then a simple process to use Microsoft’s sysprep utility to
prepare a master MetaFrame server image and then simply create copies of the virtual
machines directory. This is an even quicker method than disk imaging utilities to create many
MetaFrame servers in a virtual machine environment. These MetaFrame servers are installed
into the existing server farm. After the applications are installed and tested, these new servers
can be allocated to their appropriate published applications. Users can migrate to these
servers without any change to their ICA client.
xSeries 440 fitted with
8 processors and 16
GB of RAM running
VMWare ESX
Eight virtual machines
each running Windows
Server 2003 and Citrix
MetaFrame XPe
Existing MetaFrame XPe
servers