On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Chris Cowan wrote:
> I'm interested in gathering statistics concerning the usage of AFS and
> DFS in the real world. I honestly believe that the scaleability
> story for both technologies is exceptional. Unfortunately, nobody
> has really documented this.
>
> If you feel comfortable supplying this information, please send the
> answers to these questions in a reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I will
> collate the data and post the results.
>
>
> 1. How many production AFS and/or DFS cells are you running?
>
1 AFS, 1 DCE/DFS
> 2. Approximately how many users do you have in each cell?
>
110,000 active principals in the AFS cell. About 20,000 users have disk
space in AFS.
75,000 active principals in DCE. About 75-100 have DFS space.
> 3. How many clients do you have configured in each cell?
>
~183 in AFS
80+ in DCE
> 4. What percentage of your clients access the cells directly versus
> through a gateway (NFS, SAMBA/SMB/DFS-Lite, Netatalk, PC Enterprise, ...)
>
Only 1 is using a gateway product.
> 5. How many fileservers do you have in each cell?
>
2 AFS file servers
2 DFS file servers
> 6. How much total disk space do you have on-line in each cell?
>
116GB in AFS
144GB in DFS
> 7. How many administrators do you need to run each cell?
>
I'll answer two questions here.
My guess as to what we have is
maybe 40% of 1 person's time for AFS
about 10-25% of 3 person's time for DCE/DFS
What we could use/need is probably 2-3 total people to cover both.
> Thanks for your time,
>
> --
> Chris Cowan PSW Technologies, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Distributed Computing Systems
> (512) 342-3635 6300 Bridgepoint Pkwy, Bldg 3, Suite 200
> (512) 345-4976 (fax) Austin, TX 78730
>
>
- Mike
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