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Brian Madden had this post on his Citrix
blog about a technology by Ardence that allows servers to boot from a network disk.
The article covers how this can be used to optimize your Citrix farm. I would have
to test it to put my mind at ease about server performance when the disk is across
the network, but apparently you can keep the write portion on disks local to the server.
Read the article for details.

Excerpt

This paper covers a technology called disk streaming (sometimes referred to as
“software streaming,” “network boot” or “diskless boot”) from a company called Ardence,
and how you can use it in your Citrix environments to give you much better flexibility
and simpler server provisioning and management. In a nutshell, Ardence has technology
that lets your Citrix servers boot from centralized disk image files stored on a file
server instead of each server having its own drive. This means that you can add new
servers and re-provision existing ones simply by pointing them to a new disk file
on the network. It also means that you can reboot Citrix servers at anytime to “reset”
them to their gold server image.

Using
Ardence Disk Streaming with Citrix Servers.

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