David Johnston schreef: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 09:25 +0700, Donny Christiaan wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> We are going to setup a new LTSP Server for our company. >> There will be around 10-20 terminals connect to this server, running >> default application below: >> - SAP GUI >> - OpenOffice.org >> - Evolution (Mail Client) >> >> I need your suggestion about Hardware Specification that fit our needs, >> We are also plan to have RAID-1 or RAID-5 on this server for reliability. >> >> We plan to buy new low-end branded Server (IBM/Dell/HP/etc) for this >> LTSP Server, which server are compatible with Ubuntu 7.04 because We >> will use Ubuntu 7.04 on the LTSP Server or do you guys have any >> suggestion for the Distro? What about K12LTSP ? >> >> Thanks a lot for your help. >> I really need your suggestion. > > Donny, > I can't tell you which server to buy, but I can offer you a few things > to keep in mind. > > 1. AMD Opterons seem to handle true multitasking better than Intel chips > because the AMD chips have a much higher bandwidth between the CPU and > memory. See Google for details. use them all the time in my servers > > 2. I've had great results with 3ware's 9000 series SATA RAID > controllers. They are very fast, have an optional battery backup that > will keep unwritten data in the cache alive even if there is a complete > power failure, and 3ware has been very easy to work with. 3ware is my preferred controller. a 4 port with raid 10 gives you very good performance. as distribution i use opensuse ( 10.2 ) . don't know how far the ltsp 5 integration is, but meanwhile ltsp 4.2 works perfectly on these distro
jef > > 3. Make sure that SAPGUI will work when 20 people connect from the same > IP address. The last time I worked with ŚAP, they required each user to > have a separate IP address. If this is still the case, you will need to > get SAPGUI running as a local app; this is not difficult, but it can be > time-consuming. > > -David > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
