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Posted

I now have visions of Miss Piggy being a SysAdmin.

 

Or Gonzo ... actually ... definitely Gonzo. After all ... what did he want all those chickens for except to sacrifice to keeps the servers up and running.

Posted

1 server

65 networked machines

32 wireless laptops

15 teachers laptops

various stand-alones, IWB's etc

 

Just me - for 8 hours A WEEK!!

  • 4 years later...
Posted

5 servers.

400 PCs & Laptops.

800 students.

150 staff.

Too many printers.

Too many projectors.

Anything with a plug on the end.

Just me and my colleague.

 

Oh, and I forgot - another 200 or so PCs & Laptops when our sixth form opens this year ;-)

Posted

School 1:

6 servers

450 workstations (including approx 150 laptops)

30+ projectors

1100 users

includes admin

Me (NM) + 1 assistant (non-technical)

 

School 2:

2 servers

60 workstations (including approx 15 laptops)

12 projectors/interactive boards

350 users

Includes admin

Me!

 

School 3:

1 server

50 Workstations (including approx. 30laptops)

8 projectors/interactive boards

200 users

Includes admin

Me!

 

School 4:

1 server

40 workstations (including approx. 10 laptops)

10 projectors/interactive boards

300 users

Does not include admin network

Me!

 

Keeps me busy!

Posted

I've moved on since my original post. Now it's like so:

 

Approx 1250 computers including laptops and 50 Macs

Projector and whiteboard in every room so about 90 of each not to mention visualisers and other such stuff.

About 25 physical servers, five of which are in a VMware farm hosting about 20 guests.

2100 students, about 300 staff

Team of six in IT, the manager, senior engineer, engineer (me) and three techs.

Posted (edited)

1200 Students Year 7 - Year 13

150 Staff - only about...2 IT competent

550 Student PCs - All windows 7

120 Teacher PCs - All windows 7

120 Projectors

120 Interactive whiteboards

100 or so laptops

10 Physical Servers, 5 of which are VM hosts - 30 VMs total, All HP servers and switches throughout.

 

1 NM

1 Senior tech (me)

1 Junior tech

Edited by ZeroHour
  • 1 month later...
  • 5 months later...
Posted

14 Schools

Administration, Maintenance, Transportation and Food Services + other non-school departments

800+ Teachers and Staff

6000 Students

3500 Windows Workstations (XP and 7)

300+ Laptops (XP and 7)

500+ Macs

300+ Tablets

40+ Servers

 

3 techs and me

 

I wondered why we always have so much to do.... hee hee

Posted

900 computers, 26 servers, - one FT Director OF it, one FT senior Tech (me) one tt tech

 

just rolled out windows 7 to all machines and upgraded the back end infrastructure

Posted

Here we have:

 

500 PCs

120 iMacs

30 Staff Laptops (but very little work required on these)

10 Servers

60 Projectors

60 IWB

 

1200 Students - 80% incompetant

200 Staff (including Admin) - 99% incompetant.

 

2 of us Techs sitting in a tiny office while a single admin lady gets an office twice the size. Its mad to think if it was a 1:40 ratio we should have 15 of us! We are always busy but I reckon any more than 4 and we would be bored.

Posted

Middle of Birmingham School

 

600 pc's

21 mac's

9 servers (1 mac and 2 virtual)

80 staff laptops

110 6th form laptops

countless kids laptops which get brought in and the head asks us to take a look at them.

850 pupils including 6th form

100 staff (none IT literate)

countless projectors, whiteboards and printers.

6 DVR's for CCTV

1 Server for door access

anything else that has a plug or a screen on.

 

Theres me and the NM = very busy work schedule

Posted
Here we have:

 

500 PCs

120 iMacs

30 Staff Laptops (but very little work required on these)

10 Servers

60 Projectors

60 IWB

 

1200 Students - 80% incompetant

200 Staff (including Admin) - 99% incompetant.

 

2 of us Techs sitting in a tiny office while a single admin lady gets an office twice the size. Its mad to think if it was a 1:40 ratio we should have 15 of us! We are always busy but I reckon any more than 4 and we would be bored.

 

120 macs? somebody has way to much money!

 

I've got 7 which arrived last week! and i hate them already. I've got 13 new IWB's being installed next week and around 100 projectors 1500 students and 180 staff all incompetent apart from about 4

Posted
1200 Students Year 7 - Year 13

150 Staff - only about...2 IT competent

550 Student PCs - All windows 7

120 Teacher PCs - All windows 7

120 Projectors

120 Interactive whiteboards

100 or so laptops

10 Physical Servers, 5 of which are VM hosts - 30 VMs total, All HP servers and switches throughout.

 

1 NM

1 Senior tech (me)

1 Junior tech

 

Update now that the summers nearly over

 

Now down to 5 physical servers, which are all VM hosts. vmotion enabled with all the servers now running off iSCSI.

 

EDIT: oh also + about 30 more PCs on last year too.

Posted
120 macs? somebody has way to much money!

 

I've got 7 which arrived last week! and i hate them already.

 

One of the SLT is a Mac fan-boy and was determined to get them for CDT, Media, Music and Art. Costs us way too much in broken hardware (yes mac do break), stress, time (down to stupid staff and students) and software. Tech hate them as we have to install a VPC so they can run their software, so why did they get them in the first place! Art only use photo shop so could have spent £700 per system on top of the range PCs, they cant get used to them and would have preferd PCs.

 

He assured us that iMacs were industry standard in Video and Photo Editing, Music production and Design and tech. We have had several students return to us from uni saying they all use PCs!!! Complete waste of money, time and bother if you ask me. But then again its something I can put on my CV!

  • 6 months later...
Posted (edited)

Hi Guys,

 

I use to do these calculations when working as an Architect in the IT Outsourcing industry.....

 

1:200 for Student devices and 1:125 for Staff devices....

 

Thin Clients get up to 1:800 (assuming a swap out model)....

 

But...there are also a lot of other factors to take into account when getting the actual fte ratios

 

I have not included any AV work in here as yet....

 

see picture attached.

 

 

Support Ratios.png

Edited by rbance
  • 10 months later...
Posted

1 High School, 1 Freshman Center, 2 Middle Schools, 6 Elementary Schools, and 2 Administrator Buildings

 

Over 5,000 Computer (Mostly Laptops). Projectors in ever room. Smartboards, Mimios, and clickers all off over the place. One on One Initiative for 9,10,11 every student has a laptop all the time and they take home. Kids at home using cyber program with district laptops. Every teacher has a district Laptop.

 

3 Techs

2 Network guys

 

Will be adding another 2,000 Laptops and 500 ipads this summer and will have 9.10.11. and 12 grades all with one for one and no we are not hiring anyone.

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