NComputing for Labs/Classrooms

[yassine1641]

Hi IT Geeks,

 

I'm a newbie in NComputing , and over the next few weeks I'm going to setting up a test server ( we have a ESXI plateform) and a few old PC's acting as thin clients .

 

If the results are good wewill try and implement it properly. I've a few questions that hopefully some of you may have an opinion on:

 

* Do you have any interresting presentation that i can present to our top management, describing the benifits of NComputing vs Traditionnal PCs ?

 

* Do you have any guide/documentation to help me implementing the test lab ?

 

* As we he had already ESXI plateform ( Servers & Licenses) , what we need exaclty to implement Ncomputing except thin clients (Just to evaluate the budget)?

 

* Eventually we will replace the old PCs with actual thin client machines... any vendor recommendations (HP,Dell,L350...)?

 

Thanks for you all

[NB9457]

NComputing I must say is very good for the price and easy to manage, just make sure you have enough resources, RAM especially, things like chrome and whatnot will still be resource hungry. Try make sure in the server, there is 2GB per client and then a bit for headroom. Also run the NComputing server on SSDs if you can, that will make things quick for not a lot of money.

[s1ndr0me]

Many Cores, Such RAM, Much Spindles.

 

We run 101 L300/350's from a single DELL R630. It has 96 GB RAM & 2 x Xeon E5-2630 v3 (2.40 GHz) RAID1 SSD for the host. The Dell is a Hyper-V host with two Server 2012r2's clients that the ncomputing boxes connect to, these VM's are on a 6 spindle SAS OBR10. If I was to buy again I'd defiantly do 128GB of RAM and have a 2U server that I could have more spindles in.

 

If you're just running with 30 machines in a lab you wont need anything like that. We've run 15 l300's from from a 6 core AMD with just 16GB and 1 spindle.

 

You'll need a Licensing server and the appropriate RDS CAL's

 

The system does have a few niggles and USB drives are a bit hit n miss. apart from that its a cheap solution for most applications except video editing.