Re: [K12OSN] Server Sizing for 150 Users

["Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman cmosnetworks com>]

info wrote:

Hello,
I want to use a X-server for following applications , what should be the ideal server sizing for the 150 nos of thin-client
1) ICEwm
2) Netscape 7.0 for specific application
3) Firefox 2.0
4) Open-office 2.3
5) Mail-client Sylpheed
Which RAID configuration i should use.

I am planning a Xeon Dual processor server with 4 GB of RAM,

Regards
K.Dinesh

With all those users, I'd go at least quad-processor with 16GB DRAM.  Multiple Gig-E interfaces in a "multi-link" configuration is also needed.  For RAID configuration, SCSI is your friend here.  Assuming that you're storing your users' data on the same server, RAID 5 is the minimum, and if you can afford RAID 10, that's even better.

Is there any reason why you cannot split up the 150 users onto multiple servers?

--TP

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