I'm hoping someone(s) has already experienced using RDSH Win2k12 or Win2k12 R2 versus XenApp and can comment.
I'm working on spec'ing servers etc. etc. for a greenfield installation of two vSphere hosts with several apps -- Great Plains, Office, billing and reporting applications, etc. No heavy graphics or multi-monitors. Various 19" to 22" monitors in use, 1 per user.
Users would be connecting over the WAN, either via Internet connection or site-to-site VPN, TBD, I don't know yet which would be faster, I think a VPN would be more secure...
I unfortunately don't know yet if the approximately 35-50 users would be served a full desktop or just the applications per se.
Please assume the servers involved are all appropriately sized (vCPU, RAM, storage, networking) for the expected demand.
Can anyone(s) please comment if they have seen Win2k12 or Win2k12 R2 RDSH performance be comparable to XenApp?? -- aka "good enough"??
I am asking because I've been told that RDSH performance on Win2k8 R2 from the end user's viewpoint is definitely not as good as XenApp -- and to consider this -- and that latency is an important factor to consider...
I tried searching on this topic and found little to no definite comments, beyond RDSH in Win2k12 R2 being able to use both UDP and TCP, I forget which one it uses primarily and which one it can fall back to.
Another way to put it is that for a long time, ICA was better and more efficient than RDP.
With Windows 7 and the newest RDP 8.1 client, is Win2k12 R2 now "good enough" for small installations of 35-59 users??
The planned implementation is a 'hub and spoke' setup where all the clients/spokes talk to the servers in the hub.
Thank you, Tom