Thanks Sciuser for the details above: What are your recommendations for the Guac server CPU Cores/RAM etc...?
Thanks, Antony ᐧ On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 10:48 AM sciUser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We stream video all the time through Guacamole (9.14). > (as a company policy we wont move to 1.0.0 until 2020) > > This really isn't an RDP limitation, vs not having the correct > configuration > and resources allocated to the virtual machine streaming the video. > > My standards are below if you want to stream video with out lag (doesn't > matter if it is windows or Linux). > > 1. Internet speed is a big factor (100Mbps Min up/down), the end user will > need at least 5Mbps min, > 2. Run dual CPUs on your VM 1C 2T (if you can run 4C 2T) > 3. Minimum of 4G ram per VM (If you can run 6 to 8G) > 4. Take your Paging File / Swap and lock it statically to same amount of > Ram > allocated (e.g. 4G Ram = 4G swap) If you have a swap ratio delta that is > to > large, it will cause more disk seek, and never swap more than 30% > > 5. This is the big one; (a) your hosting server will need to have at least > 6 > or more drives in a raid 5 configuration, the more drives the better to > spread the inodes, (b) virtual Host servers will take 5% to 8% of over all > memory to run the udom (e.g. 128G Ram foot print, means 6G for Host > server). > (c) Host server (server class) Dual CPU Xeon 10C 20T (Xenserver manages > CPUs > and Memory better than VMware), You can get away dual i7 8C 16T but will > need more ram. > > Great thing here is, this is before any introduction to a GPU, and that has > a different standard. > > Good test video is iPhone 8 official commercial it hits the correct > spectrum's for audio and video. > > P.S. Customers own computers may vary, because many like to install > everything in the world on their systems, or running in full anti-virus > mode > where each bit is scanned (Paranoia). > > We test our platform using a variety of hardware, from chrome books with 4 > gigs ram and Chrome/Chromium to tablets (Raspberry pi 1g ram loads +1/-1 as > a gaming laptop (alienware)). Time from access to environment for a user > is > less than >60 secs > > > Hope this helps. > > > Thank you > > > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://apache-guacamole-general-user-mailing-list.2363388.n4.nabble.com/ > -- Antony Awaida CEO www.apporto.com
