I'm looking to put together a demo Sun Ray environment using one of these: http://www.recompute.com.au/customise.php?pid=2165
Basically, 14 dual Xeon 3.2 GHz blades with 2 GB RAM each. I was thinking of upgrading three of the blades to 4 GB and putting them in a FOG. I could have them serve Linux or Solaris sessions. Between the three of them, I estimate that would serve about 20 Firefox/Email/OpenOffice sessions. Two more blades would make up a FOG dishing out VDI sessions. They'd probably cope with 50-100 of those I'm guessing. This leaves nine blades to run some VDI machines on there. My questions are: 1. Are my estimates of the capacity of this setup accurate? 2. What number of VDI virtual machines would the remaining blades be able to support? 3. What is a recommended way of handling storage? I was thinking of a decent capacity fileserver external to the BladeCenter running OSol and ZFS. The Linux or Solaris sessions would mount home directories there, and the virtual machines will mount their disks over iSCSI. Is going to perform reasonably given that it is a very low cost option. 4. Once the setup is up and running, how do I demonstrate that the capacity of the system is what I think it is. What sort of load testing strategies have people out there come up with, other than just throwing it into a live environment. -- Kind regards, John Francis _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
