We currently have a system that because of firewall port issues (i.e. it uses any port it can) has to run via a Citrix front end. Because of the way Citrix works with VM’s this means we have to use 5 separate Citrix servers and may now have to use more as customer wants to extend usage (its something like 50 users max per Citrix instance)
What I want to know is – can we use our NetApp storage platform to host the application and have ThinApp ‘stream’ that application to the desktop over one protocol (i.e. RDP). Similar to hosted application streaming in XenApp we’d want to deliver the application to the SAN and connect each user to a remote session running their application. The application on the SAN would then have to connect to the back end database server such that the only connection between the desktop and the data centre was via RDP (or one protocol)
Can you let me know if this is possible, what sort of architecture we’d need, a quick idea of how it works at the back end and a rough idea of license costs
Many tks