Christoph Litauer wrote:
Dear admins,we are able to buy new ray servers for our 60 stations. I am wondering which machine will perform best and hope you will give me some hints: The choice is between: - 2 x Sun Fire T2000, 8 Core (1GHz), 8GB RAM, 2 disks - 2 x Sun Fire V240, 2 x 1.5Ghz, 8GB, 2 disks - 2 x Sun Fire V440, 2 x 1.6Ghz, 4GB, 2 disks Typical scenario is 35 stations running as kiosks with Firefox. The other 15 stations are fo "normal" logins, running KDE. So each server would have about 300-400 running processes without heavy number crunching. I would prefer the T2000 as I think the multi-core architecture would serve the lot of processes better, but I did not find any hints if I am right. Anybody out there who did some performance tests?
I would suggest 4x t1000 to provide failover + load balancing. You don't really need the internal failover of a t2000.(this setup is of course valid only if home dir are on a separate, high availability server, but in your case, 35 station don't have home dirs).
We have a cluster (understand failover group) of t1000 and it works very very well with huge amount of users, we are perfectly happy. And we provide access to x86 server for some special applications, but it's always the t1000 that are managing the sessions.
Regards -- Kuon CEO - Goyman.com SA http://www.goyman.com/ "Computers should not stop working when the users' brain does."
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