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Server Farms
This section describes example server farm topologies in which the BladeCenter
unit can be deployed. These include:
v Small server farm in a central location with one zone.
v Large server farm in a central location with three zones.
v Small server farm in remote locations with one zone.
Small server farm-central location-1 zone
In this small server farm solution, two domain controllers have been implemented
for redundancy. One of the domain controllers has been implemented in one of the
blades with the SCSI option so that RAID 1 capabilities are available for the hard
disk drive. Implementing physically separated units for domain controllers reduces
the risk of a service outage.
Figure 5. Small server farm-central location-1 zone
Seven blades provide Citrix Metaframe services to the infrastructure. One is
designated as the Data Collector and an additional blade is used to install a Web
server and Citrix NFuse to provide access through the Web.
A spare blade is included in the configuration, which can be used as:
v Cold spare. The blade is normally powered down and ready to be imaged
v Oversizing. The blade runs a Citrix server image, providing redundancy by
v Testing. The blade can be used to test new images.
The remaining slots in the BladeCenter unit are available for future scalability or for
other purposes in the infrastructure (such as implementing Secure Gateway).
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through RDM to replace any failing blade.
adding more farm capacity than is needed to actually sustain the workload.
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