Dave, thank you for your comments. Yes - 100 active sessions and 200 inactive. I The site we are working with has made extensive use of vlans - do you have any specific thoughts with regard to the suitability vlans for SunRay? Also wondering what you mean by "Media Servers" as an alternative to DTU based USB?
Marcus On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:17:32 -0700, David Partrington wrote > Marcus, > There are several factors that effect Sun Ray scaling and > performance, here are a few: > > -use a dedicated interconnect for DTU's > -disable all screen savers > -Limit audio and video streaming > -use quota's on users to limit resources > -don't install a video card in the server > -keep storage on the server, to take advantage of the backplane > -limit USB mass storage, use media servers as an alternative > > The 440 is a great box and has no problems running 100 users. On the > 3-1 ratio with 100 DTU's, are you saying that you would have 300 > users with smart cards, and 200 sessions inactive? The best > configuration would be to run more than 1 server with failover. On > My first implementation, I had a 220 running NFS for home > directories and four E420R for 300 users. > > The 210's may scale to 50 users, but I would go with a higher availability > box like a V240 that has dual power supplies and more storage > capacity. And once again I would use two servers if possible. > > My largest configuration is a single 4800 supporting 500 users. On > the 4800 I have all my eggs in one basket, because of how it is used, > I don't have any failover. > > I have three 490's supporting 275 users across two Vlans running > Rdesktop in CAM mode. > > Currently I am installing Seven V240's in 7 buildings with session mobility > and each providing failover. This network will scale to about 200 > users when completed. > > Hope that helps. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
