To: David Partington @us.army.mil This VMware & SunRay configuration sounds impressive but when I run the numbers it doesn't add up. I was wondering if you could clarify this for me.
450 simultaneous VM sessions each using 2GB RAM & 70GB storage = 900GB RAM total 31.5TB Storage total . . . Yet your resources are 5 X4600 with 64GB RAM each = 320GB RAM and you have 27TB of storage available. How is that? I can only imagine your 450 number is what you plan on having in the future and you are currently running something like 150 as assigning 2GB RAM per VM session uses 300GB leaving 20GB for the servers. (Or is my math way off here?) It's been over a month since you posted those specs, have you had any RAM/Storage upgrades? Have you reached that 450 mark yet? Thanks Jeffrey > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:sunray-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Partington, David R Mr (NGIT) USAIC&FH > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:49 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Ellis, Mike > Subject: [SunRay-Users] RE: Wow... > > 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 _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
