Number of Servers

[Abaddon]

39.. Made up of a 12 server Citrix farm, file servers for each year group and one for staff, Exchange, SIMS, 3 DC's, several webservers, the Bursary servers and several others. And a NWN server...

[indiegirl]

A pitiful 6 here...

DC, File, SQL, Mail, ISA, Backup.

Obviously, some servers do several jobs!

Plus a load of redundant old CSE servers just sat there, switched off. NM 'plans' to reintegrate them as a streaming media server amongst other things.

 

It'll never be done :-D

 

300odd machines, 1000 students, 250 staff, 20 laptops, a few numpties, a hamster in a corner on its wheel and no air conditioning.

[wesleyw]

@Abaddon - How big is the school then?

 

Wes

[Abaddon]

We have about 1300 students (all of whom will have access to the Citrix servers from home starting in September), 150-odd teaching staff + support staff. There are around 300 PC's and 140 laptops (for staff).

 

Some of it is duplication due to the fact we have two entirely distinct networks - one for academic and one for admin/bursary, as there have always been security concerns from the powers that be. Hopefully, this is being addressed over the next term, and I can get on with merging the domains!

[wesleyw]

How much did the citrix system cost in rough terms on a per pupil basis?

 

I think I'll have to have a look at this for the school when the laptops for pupils scheme gets underway. Pupils working from home then the dream of BSF could be forefilled we could just have one building per county a big server farm and everything is done remotely lol frightening thought!

 

Wes

[Abaddon]

Putting aside the cost of the hardware and the Citrix itself, we bought 200 Citrix licenses at about £120 each... we haven't actually had that many people on at once yet, but that may (and probably will!) change in September when we open it up properly. Also you need to factor in the TS client requirements, both internal and external. We bought an unlimited external license, and 200 internal CAL's for that.

 

So I guess you could sat that is was about £130 per connection to the farm, with 200 as a limit. If you start factoring in the initial cost of the hardware and the Citrix application itself, it would be going up considerably...

[wesleyw]

Terminal Service Client? £9-13 I think from Ramesys But the external License? How much are they?

 

Wes

[Abaddon]

Yes.. you still need the TS license (£9.50 we paid, each) in addition to the Citrix ones... the external connector is.. uh.. about £1,500...

 

Looking back at the records for last year, the Citrix cost is totally connection based, so you pay per connection - there is no additional cost for the actual product itself, and it was £125 per Citrix Licence (that's for Enterprise Edition, Standard would be a bit cheaper)

[riedquat]

ok, approx 1000 enrolled users, 350 clients inc. notebooks

 

Admin Network:

 

1x Windows 2003 (single forest)

(SIMS, Pupil Reports, Sophos EMLibrary)

 

Curriculum Network: (single tree)

1x Novell OES (netware core) - HYDRA

(NAMP, Zenworks for Desktops, File and Print, LDAP Primary)

1x Novell OES (netware core) - PHOENIX

(NAMP, File and Print, DNS/DHCP, VLE Content Store)

1x Novell OES (netware core) - GRYFIN

(NAMP, File and Print)

1x Novell OES (SUSE core)

(LAMP, Squid Proxy, Firewall)

1x Redhat - LEA managed and supplied

(Proxy, Cached content store)

1x Windows 2000 - MAILHOST

(Mail Server, Edexcel Exambase, Sophos EM Library)

1x Windows 2000 - EXAMSERVER1

(QCA KS3 ICT, Kaleidos VLE)

[Irazmus]

Curriculum:

1 DC/File/Print - 2K3

1 Mailserver - OSX server

1 Webserver - LAMP

 

Admin:

1 DC/SIMS - 2K3

 

Adding next month:

1 SuccessMaker - 2K3

1 Proxy - Smoothwall/Dansgardian || Censornet

1 OCS Inventory - LAMPP (maybe)

 

~600 students ~50 teachers/support staff ~45 desktops ~75 laptops and ~30 old iMacs/eMacs gathering dust