Hi,
I'm planning to use LTS to replace all the developer workstations in my
(small) company. There are presently 5 developers and will grow to about 10
in 3-6 months. (and around 20 in about an year). Therefore I would like to
introduce LTS at the very beginning.
The software which the devs would be using:
1. A browser, most probably Opera
2. Mail Client: any decent one
3. Java IDE: either Forte4J or JBuilder
4. Servlet Engine: Tomcat 4
5. Either Openoffice or MS Office (using Crossover office, or inside VMWare)
6. Oracle 9i (only one instance for all the devs)
7. VMWare: Definitely Need this to test clients (which will be Win32
based). Every dev would be having 64MB VM (either Win98 or W2K Pro). The
client is actually very light, so hopefully this shouldn't be a big burden.
8. MAYBE (in the future), there might be a shared instance of Weblogic /
JBoss running multiple applications (one for each dev)
They would be developing and testing application on the server itself.
There would be one instance of Oracle running which would be shared by all
the devs, but everything else they would be running their own copy. (even
VMWare)
I was thinking of running everything at the server. This way, I'm hoping
that I'll be able to reduce the client workstation cost to almost nothing
(say Pentium 166Mhz or so). Moreover, I can safely assume that everybody
would be running all the apps at the same time, and doing some compiling too.
Now, the server specs I had in mind were as follows.
Tyan Tiger MPX Motherboard + 2 X Athlon MP 1800+
1-1.5 GB of DDR RAM
RAID Array
100Mbps Switched network
As far as the RAID array is concerned, I was thinking of RAID 10 (4 disks
of around 18/36 GB each). The issue is that are SCSI (10K rpm) disks a must
or would IDE disks (7200 rpm) do?
So would these specs suffice for say 10 developers. And how should I plan
my server so that I make less investment (for 5 dev) right now and upgrade
the server later. I was thinking of going with a dual board but only a
single processor in the beginning and say less RAM.
Moreover, would it be better to say separate it into 2 servers (both single
CPU) and have RAID 1 in both the boxes. Then I might separate VMWare and
say Oracle in the second server and use the first one for regular work.
Please note that this is for a cash strapped company, so I cannot go for
Xeons (4-way) or any other high-end hardware. That is why I'm even thinking
of using IDE drives (knowing fully well that the SCSI interface will serve
me better in a server environment).
And in your opinion how many dev's would I be able to support with the
above mentioned configuration.
Thanks,
Prashant
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