Mike, We have close to 3000 Sun Ray's in production at Ft Huachuca. We have some Solaris Desktops, but the majority is Terminal Server Desktops. The problem with terminal servers is that the individual students dont have individual Windows IP's, and a few apps don't work well terminal services. To solve this issue we conducted a couple of pilots running Windows XP VM's with VMWARE ESX. The pilot was very successful and we were able to establish a baseline for scalablity. What we determined was that we could run 80 users on a single 4600. Our (5)4600's have 64GB of Ram and 8 dual core CPU's. Each 4600 has 8 4GB FCAL ports attached to a 27TB file Server. For each VM session, we have allocate 2GB of RAM and 70GB of Disk. On the five 4600's we are provided 450 simultaneous XP VM's. The XP VM are served out to the Sun Ray's via the uttsc windows connector. The cost savings over a FAT client is 70%. I will post more results later. If you have any further questions E-mail me.
Thanks Dave -----Original Message----- From: Ellis, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wow... I'm sorry to hear about the problem you're having. Hopefully it's a quick fix. If you don't mind me asking, is there anything you can share about the 5x x4600's you're running VMware on? I would assume its virtualized XP instances, or something along those lines. Any experiences you can share with VMware on such a large platform (with boatloads of instances?) would be much appreciated. Thanks, -- MikeE Michael J. Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FISC/UNIX Engineering 400 Puritan Way (M2G) Marlborough, MA 01752 Phone: 508-787-8564 -- I am running 3 Sun T2000's in a failover, with non smart card CAM Mode connecting to 5 Sun 4600 ESX (VMWARE Servers) via RDP. The SR Servers are running Solaris 10 with SRSS 4.0. I don't know if this is a keyboard issue. Has anyone else seen this problem, and is there a work-around. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
