We deploy our production SRS servers in VMware (VI3 not vSphere). We've done this for almost 2 years and we've the only VMware related issues with SRS is that if we try to vMotion a SRS server then all the Sun Rays attached to it drop their sessions but we run a FOG with DRS anti-affinity rules to keep the SRS servers off the same host so this hasn't been a serious issue, more of a nuisance.
Performance is perfectly fine and while I'm not opposed to physical servers for this their just doesn't seem to be a need. However we are using kiosk mode to talk to Windows TS farm instead of running sessions on the SRS servers themselves. We have about 100 users so we aren't exactly huge over here. Thanks, Isaac -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Clarke Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 6:17 AM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: [SunRay-Users] Serious use of SRSS from within a VM Hi, Apart from the odd play/test/education is anybody getting serious use from SRSS running from inside a VM (say Virtualbox/VMWare or Xen) ? There are more and more services being deployed on VMs these days and i was just looking ahead and wondering if SRSS was being used. The way i set my systems up, whereby I have a set install (OpenSolaris/Ubuntu) and users homes are NFS's - because I keep to a set install routine with regard to packages etc. I could (in theory) prepare a "gold image" of say Ubuntu 9.10, then roll it out across all clients. Then when 10.4 comes out, prepare a new "gold image" at home, install the image on the clients machines, stop the 9.10 image and start the 10.4 (if there is a problem - rollback). This sounds very "nirvana" - I guess the thing that makes me edgy is the thought of 20 users running full desktop sessions from a VM - however, with the likes of Oracle, IBM, HP, Postgres etc. people all deploying huge systems vurtually, makes me wonder if I am a bit behind the times. It took a long time for me to jump to the VM world, but since doing so I really haven't looked back. Of course, client hardware would need to be beefy, but they are pretty state of the art (quad core fast AMDs, 16GB RAM etc.).... maybe... Whats your thoughts? -- -- Regards Sean Clarke --------------------------------------------- SEC Consulting Limited Phone: +44 (0)23 8040 5599 Website: http://www.sec-consulting.co.uk Email: [email protected] SEC Consulting is a Sun Partner Advantage Member: Sun, keeping 10 moves ahead. http://www.sec-consulting.co.uk/Sun/index.html _______________________________________________ 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
