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12 Steps to a Better Citrix Farm |
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Sunday, 23 September 2007 |
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In August 2000, Jwoel Spolsky wrote an article that helped to evaluate the quality of your software team. And then we thought - could it apply to a Server Based Computing environment?
Joel Spolsky's article helped software developers think about ways to evaluate the quality of their software and their team. Could it apply to a Server Based Computing environment? Within an organisation, the SBC service often gets a bad press. If there is a problem it'll often be 'Citrix’s' fault. It's not unusual to find Citrix administrators asking how they install their environment so that it will run 'just fine'. Questions are asked about "what are the list of hotfixes" needed to 'make the farm stable'; “how can I see if the servers are performing well”, “how can I work out why they are performing poorly?”. What are the foundations of a good SBC environment? So here is Joel's test - as applied to SBC. As with the original test, the higher the score the more likely you have a disciplined environment, a good team and a stable service that consistently delivers. A low score and you need to take a look at the team and operating environment; your farm - even if its only a couple of servers - could be causing you more work than it should and your users more grief than even they deserve. This document was first released in 2007, the updated 2009 version has been takes into account new tools and technologies that you can work with. View 12 Steps to a Better Citrix Farm. |
