What do you expect the concurrency to be on average? My biggest problem with something like this is that you have no fault tolerance. So if this one box goes down, all these part time helpers are down.
Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 [email protected] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com From: "Stephen Wimberly" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Date: 07/01/2013 06:37 PM Subject: [NTSysADM] VDI Server Hardware Critique Sent by: [email protected] Please critique the following "budget" VDI Server purchase. I know there is no "correct" hardware, but also want to hear what others think. USE: Approximately 50 workstations via Microsoft RDS that will run Microsoft Office (Most will not use Outlook, but rather webmail). All will have Adobe Reader, but not licensed Adobe products. These will be shared computers, generally not used by full time staff personnel but part time helpers so the login/logoff storm will be more random. SERVER: Dell PowerEdge R720 CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2680 (8 Core) Memory: 192 GB (12x16GB @ 1600 RDIMS RAID 10 (H710 PERC) HDD: 16 300GB 10K 2.5" NIC: BCOM 5720 Daughter Card OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Hyper V Remote Desktop Services (We may wait for Server 2012 R2 for the deduplication on the HyperV guests.) This will be our first step into VDI, so any advance thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you in Advance! ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.
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