Hi everyone
We are currently getting some issues with a high number of user sessions appearing in XenApp 6.5, that are either disconnected or showing as active even though the user doesn’t have the specified application open.
Someone has suggested that we should be scheduling regular reboots of our XenApp server to try and reduce this. I know how to set this up but was wondering if anyone already does this, and if so what kind of frequency you schedule the reboots for? It looks like the default is 7 days but we were thinking of doing this every evening. Is this too often.
I’d be grateful for any input on what everyone thinks.
Thanks
1 Spice up
We reboot our XenApp servers every night around 3 am. We used to do it every 2 - 3 days but the drives are filling up with profiles much quicker as we expand our environment mainly because we are an education institution and the reboot wipes the profiles from the server freeing up the disk space on the C: drive once again.
We also have Configured session timeout to 10 minutes and active session limit to 12 hours using the following article: How to Configure Idle and Disconnect Timeout Settings in XenApp . It seems to help sessions that hang or users that log on and walk away as we are using the concurrent license model.
Hope this helps.
Brian
Pensfan, I am exactly the same as you in my environment. We reboot nightly at 3am as well. That was always our best practice with our PS4.5 farm, and it’s carried over into the XA6.5 farm. Seems to work well. I have a GPO that wipes profiles that are 10 days or older, and that only runs on reboots, so that helps me keep my space, while also keeping the recent logons on the server.
Great, thanks for the input guys. We’ve implemented a scheduled reboot so hopefully this will help. Thanks again.
