If budget is an issue, it might be cheaper to run 4 servers instead of just 2. It also makes the environment a little more fault-tolerant (ie, if one of the servers goes down, you're down to 75% capacity instead of 50%). It also means you can stay up during infrastructure maintenance if they are replacing switches or if VPN stuff is getting overhauled.
Just a thought. ---Dan On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM, scorp123 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > a customer of mine (a local college here in Switzerland) want to replace > their 700+ existing PC's with 1200 Sun Ray DTU's. Wow. So I am slightly over > my head here and I had hoped someone with more experience could help me with > a few architectural suggestions? > > The customer is very much "pro x86" and fiercly "pro Linux" and "pro VMware > ESX". So my initial thought was to go for e.g. > > 2 x Sun Fire X4600M2 (for redundancy and e.g. VMotion), and in each of > these servers: > ... 8 x Quad-Core CPU's, 256 GB RAM, 292 GB total disk space per server > > My thoughts why I thought this was a good configuration: > > - works with VMware Infrastructure > - with VMware we could implement VDI > - with VMware they could create, clone, copy & move virtual machines as > they wish > - this is a college, so in a worst case all 1200 DTU's might be used at the > same time, so the hardware must be able to take the workload > - with e.g. two virtual SRSS instances I could share the workload between > the two X4600M2's, e.g. create a fail-over group etc. > > Latest news is they want Sun Secure Global Desktop too .... So with above > configuration I think the hardware could handle it? > > Any suggestions? What configuration would you suggest to handle 1200 DTU's > at the same time (worst case)? Or is the above configuration total overkill? > I'd be happy for your suggestions ... > > Regards + Thanks in advance, > > > DJM. > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > >
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