On Wednesday 20 Aug 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > On Tuesday 19 Aug 2008, Sampath Inturi wrote:
> > 1.I want to buy a server, which can run 100 thin clients with out > > any performance problem. 2.Our requirement is to run firefox and > > open office. > > 3.Our budjet is Rs 40,000. > > So friends please help me to sortout this > > Assuming this is for an enterprise environment; suggest enterprise > grade components. Strongly suggest to *resist* the temptation to go > cheap - you will get what you pay for. > > You need to do your home work w.r.t: > > 1. disk space usage/user > 2. mem. usage/user > 3. avg. bandwidth/user > > I just spec'd out a system for a client (15 users) - all server grade > components: 2GB ECC RAM (Kingston), Xeon 3220 cpu, 3*250GB Seagate > Barracuda (SATA II) software raid, Intel 3200AH mobo w/ 2*Gigabit NIC > and the price came to around 40K w/ 1 year onsite warranty. This is > from a local Intel channel partner. Name brands came to around 55K. > > My personal opinion, for 100 thin clients on one single 40K server > may not cut it. Here is some information on LTSP setup on openSUSE <http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP> <quote> Any decent desktop/server with about 1 GB of RAM per 5 thin clients. </quote> -- Arun Khan
