On Wednesday 25 October 2006 14:34, Hugh Nelson wrote: > We tried putting Win2K terminal server into a virtual installation of > VMware on Ubuntu earlier this year, with the idea of immortalizing the > server and having redundant boxes. But unfortunately, we just couldn't > get the speed to stop the punters from complaining. I wonder if there > are ways to make such an environment have sufficient speed to run a > practice?
DON'T use TS. Huge waste of resources that way. Use a barebone W2k installation stripped of everything non-essential in one VMware session in order to run MS-SQL Then use Win4Lin TS to run the client (desktop) software That will actually run *at least* as fast as native, and achieves what you want - complete hardware abstraction and ease of maintenance/backups/restores If performance is not good enough (> 12 simultaneous clients), put the Win4Lin TS onto a spearate machine Currently there are people experimenting with SQL relay and a MS-SQL facade - that is, any server connecting to SQL relay plus the MSSQL interface facade will appear to any connecting process as if it ws talking to MSSQL, but in treality would talk to Postgres or similar. Currently it only works as long as the schema does not rely on stored procedures though - would work with any software that uses MSSQL as a plain relational SQL capable database (= not requiring anything from the MSSQL server but plain tables and views accessed via SQL statements) Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
