How many computers / resources do you support?

[m1ddy]

Morning all,

 

I am after a bit of information from you all. I just want to know how many things you support and how many staff you have to do it?

 

Currently we have.....

 

600 computers

12 servers

70 projectors

35 IWB

30 printers

1350 users

Network

VLE to maintain.

We currently have 2 technical staff to look after all of the above. Both of which are term time ONLY.

 

What sort of situations are you all in with regards to staffing?

 

Thanks

 

Jon

Edited April 29, 2008 by m1ddy

[wesleyw]

250 Computers soon to be 300, 20 servers soon to be 26+ 35 Projectors, 30 IWB, 20 Printers, VLP (Moodle, Sharepoint) Terminal Services. 2 Technical Staff, Full Time. Could do with a third technician to do the "little" jobs whilst we get on with important tasks.

 

 

Wes

[gshaw]

About 400-450 computers across 2 separate networks plus a few outcentres, 50-60 laptops, 16 projectors, 20 odd servers, 40 odd printers currently with 2 fulltime staff and 1 more coming soon to do the day-to-day support Edited April 28, 2008 by gshaw

[TronXP]

300 Computers, 10 servers, 38 projectors, about 30 printers, 1100 users 2 Technical staff term time only (NM + Technician) and 1 Teaching Assistant in the main lab Edited April 28, 2008 by TronXP

[gmiller]

150 computers, 9 servers, 20 printers, 36 iwb and projectors, 575 users, all support, build and development work done by me only..

 

i think its just a manageable level for me at the moment bearing in mind all the much needed development work ongoing since i joined last year.

 

40 pcs and a few more servers over the summer will add to this.

[tmcd35]

26 Servers for 300 computers? Hell even 10 Servers for 300 computers - thats some funky Server:Client ratio you got going on there! Either you are running Terminal Servers, or your servers are virtualised and you have a separate server for each small task.

 

Anyhow - about 5/600 computers and around 2/300 laptops. Soon to be 6 physical servers (2 VMWare, 1 San, 1 Free VMWare, 2 Terminal Servers) and around 15 virtual servers. More projectors, wifi ap's, IWB and printers than I can possibly count, We are for a 1 in each class room on all but printers.

 

1 Network Manager, 1 Senior Tech, 2 Junior Techs.

[Geoff]

450+ computers, 50+ thin clients, 10+ Windows servers, 10+ Linux servers, 20+ printers, 40+ laptops, 30+ projectors, 1 full time tech, 2 term time techs, 1 NM, 2 work experience minions. Edited April 28, 2008 by Geoff

[alan-d]

Network Manager (Me)

Admin Network Manager/Senior Tech (apeo)

Technician (Phenom)

 

All full time running 12 servers, 185 PCs, 373 laptops, 53 projectors, 45 IWBs, 63 printers, 300(ish) software titles, Intranet, VLE etc for 1000+ students and 70+ staff.

[Geoff]

ugh, that's a lot of laptops alan. I bet that gets annoying. Currently on a crusade to get rid of ours.

[tmcd35]

2 work experience minions.

 

Sounds useful! I'm gonna have to get me one of them!

[m1ddy]

Im starting to see a trend here. We are drastically understaffed arn't we!

 

I forgot to add 50+ IWB and 1 more server coming shortly.

[alan-d]

ugh, that's a lot of laptops alan. I bet that gets annoying. Currently on a crusade to get rid of ours.

 

It gets worse - adding another 32 this summer and replacing 32 others which means the old ones will probably be cleaned up and put back into circulation for basic web browsing and office functions

 

The SMT are currently happy to pay for the additional costs of maintenance which sort of buggers up our objections Next Year we upgrade the wireless kit

[pallen]

175 computers,4 servers, 30 laptops, 17 projectors 700 users. Me(IT Tech) full time.

[witch]

I think you are a bit understaffed - at least one of the staff should be full time and not term time only - and maybe you need a term time lowly tech like me.

 

I look after 100 machines, 32 wireless laptops, 15 teachers laptops, 15 IWB etc etc

Sounds easy except that I do it in 10 hours a week term time only!

 

If you do a search you will see that this question has been asked many times - lots of info for you

[IanM4657]

Currently 250 or so Computers, 100 laptops, 1050 users 7 servers, 30 IWB, 35 Projectors . Staff : 1 NM(me) full time, 1 tech part time term time only.

[Disease]

This Topic comes round every so often:)

 

400+ Desktops, 1200 Users, 120+ Laptops, 65+ Projectors, 30 IWB, 14 Servers, AV equipment in every room, 70+ Printers, 2 Networks, New Wireless network put in during the Easter break (by us), all internal telephones and mobiles, intranet, VLE, External Website, all Marketing, Security Cameras include install of the Cameras. **takes breath** we also do all installs of cabling wirless AV installs EVERYTHING! nothing is outsourced except Electrics.

 

Me - Network Manager

Jakey - Technician

Robin - Technician

 

All Full Time.

[somabc]

In my last job it was 1200 pupils, 400 desktops (all over 3 years old mostly bought second hand), 5 servers, approx 200 laptops (not sure of the exact no as no records were kept, all with a non standard build), various printers and AV equipment, VLE (moodle), maintain external website, run help desk system, CCTV

 

Staff - Me (only!) on the lowest payscale possible for a tech

Budget £0 (yes there was no annual IT budget)

 

and they wonder why i left?

Edited April 28, 2008 by somabc

[Guest kerrymoralee9280]

IT manager & 3 techs (one of which supports 5 primaries most of the time so only 2 really on site).

 

Around 300 machines, 30+ IWB around 8 servers (inc all the SIMS stuff which is kind of managed by LEA). We also have about 30-40 laptops for use in class rooms that are old and a pain to manage.

[Kitkatninja]

We have 2 full-time staff: Myself (IT Network Manager) & a senior tech and we support:

 

Sims .Net & FMS - Upgrades, patches & migrations

Bromcom - Upgrades & patches

550 computers (PC's & laptop's)

17 Servers

IP Security Camera system

The Telephone system (not level 3)

Approx 65 printers (we service the ones we can ourselves)

About 60 Projectors

About 20 Interactive whiteboards

Switches and cabling

VLE

Wireless infrastructure

We also support a local primary school

 

I think that it (not including the other things that I do like project plans, budget plans, etc).

 

-Ken

[GlennT]

300 PC's, 26 Servers [inc. Exchange/Sharepoint/Webserver etc], About 40 printers, 31 projectors/whiteboards and also 7 feeder schools....there's 2 of us.

[seacider]

Why so many servers? we have 600+ pcs, 120 staff laptops, wireless and cat 5 network,only 6 servers. 90 projectors, 60 printers, 20 IWB 1700 kids and the three of us

[GlennT]

Why so many servers? we have 600+ pcs, 120 staff laptops, wireless and cat 5 network,only 6 servers. 90 projectors, 60 printers, 20 IWB 1700 kids and the three of us

 

Quite a few for our portal solution [exchange/isa/sql/portal], a couple of DC's, couple of print servers, quite a few application/file servers.....soon builds up!

[browolf]

nm (more management than technical) + 2.5 term time technicians. (the .5 spends 50% of time at primary schools)

 

c. 10 servers

361 student computers

159 laptops

1900 user accounts

c. 30 IWBs

[zag]

2 Term time people for

 

400 computers

12 servers

20 projectors

1000 users

[stitch]

1 Network Manager

2 Full Time Technicians

 

FOR

 

500 PCs

5 Netware Servers

4 Windows Servers

40 Laptops

70+ IWBs & Projectors

1500 Users Accounts