I don't know if benchmarks are the proper way of showing the systems
capability.
Maybe a graph with number of users versus performance would also be
interesting.
First of all there are two ways to use a Sunray system:
1. Just a session manager. Rdesktop, Citrix or NX are used to run the
desktops on other systems.
2. Run a JDS (full desktop) on the sunray server.
If you look at the memory, cpu and disk usage there is a big difference
between 1 and 2.
So maybe two benchmarks are needed?
Secondly the scalability of a Sunray server is very important.
If you add more users the user experience (performance) should not degrade.
Lets run a benchmark for every user and increase the number of users.
Make a graph of the number of users (x) versus the benchmark results (y).
The ultimate sunray server would probably be the one which has a
horizontal line in the graph.
The benchmark stays the same when you increase the number of users.
Ivar
Paul Greidanus wrote:
That's an interesting thought.. is there any resonable way to quantify
SunRay performance in a way that you could compare Opteron vs
UltraSparcIII vs Niagara based systems? Would be cool to have the
SimDacenter tool have a metric for this as well...
Ivar Janmaat wrote:
It would be nice if Sun would provide some more information about
what to expect from their servers in a sunray environment when they
launch the systems. Maybe a Sunray benchmark is needed for this?
Or might sun focus on the niagara II to be the real sunray server?
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