Hello Martin, > Hello Kai, > > > We run Linux with LTSP and W2k3 on the same machines, where w2k3 is > > installed in a VMWare Server. > > VMWare Server - do you mean the free version?
Yes > I don´t have any experience with VMWare, but can I run MS SQL Server in > the free version? As you install the OS on the virtual machine the same way as you would do on a real machine there is no restriction with the virtual machine compared to the installation on a real machine. (You will only have a small loss of performance) > > Works fine and is a better load balance if all users use > > either x screen or rdesktop screen at the same time. > > This means you use rdesktop to connect to W2K3 which runs in VMWare on > the same machine, right? Yes (but it is virtually another server, as it has it's own IP-Adress (which is physically the same network card of the linux box) > > Having Windows and Linux on different Servers would be ineffective if > > only one OS is used at a time. > > I would only need the other machine to run SQL Server. > The question is now if a professional VMWare software would be more > expensive than an additional W2K3 server running SQL Server and would > provide me the same speed. You can use the free VMWARE without any restrictions. If you buy two servers, you can load balance between those two servers, e.g. each of them serves one half of the terminals. Maybe it's recommended to run the RDBMS on a separate machine, but you can try to run it on one of the terminal servers. > > I suggest to run as much as possible (Internet, Office) on the Linux side > > and use the w2k3 Server only for those applications which are not > > available as Linux-programs. > > I should use VMWare Server to run my windows client application on the > linux machine, which would have a better load balance if I understand > you right. If your users will only use windows programs and if the purpose of LTSP is only to load the terminal OS, than probably a small Linux box (one of those P4 you have) and a big Win2k3 Server are another possible configuration. -- Kai Wollweber IGS Eckernförde ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
