owen1978 Posted May 21, 2012 Posted May 21, 2012 Can someone help me, I need an idea of what hardware specs I will need for our RDS server for a primary school. 100 devices Virtualized 2008 RDS Apps include Office, Flash based children programs, Web browsing, I am not concerned with storage as the Host will have SAS drives for the OS & Apps, While user data, documents etc.. will be stored on a 12tb nas. So they question I am asking is... Which CPU? - More cores the better? or better to have a larger cache? How many CPU's? - With one CPU be able to serve 100 concurrent connections? How much memory? If you can provide any links to systems, that would be great Thank you
andydis Posted May 21, 2012 Posted May 21, 2012 (edited) dont forget gfx card for remote fx What are the clients running ( thin client?) what server space do you have in the CAB? any preference (dell / HP) , whats your other kit consist of? Edited May 21, 2012 by andydis
CyberNerd Posted May 21, 2012 Posted May 21, 2012 From my experience with RDS and Citrix (and I've been doing it for nearly 10 years) You are better off having more lower spec servers than you are having fewer higher spec servers. for 100 users and some redundancy I would go for 3x mid range servers with duel Xeon processors with around 8-12GB RAM. You *Could* put them all on one server, but disk I/O will become a problem (even on SAS drives) and you will have no redundancy.
Mako Posted May 21, 2012 Posted May 21, 2012 (edited) Okay, I've specced you a server. Are these specs good enough? Edited May 21, 2012 by Mako 1
jamesfed Posted May 21, 2012 Posted May 21, 2012 Are you ok with Rack servers (e.g. propper cooling ect)?
owen1978 Posted May 21, 2012 Author Posted May 21, 2012 (edited) Not to bothered about Dell or HP I'm ideally looking at a 1U Rack unit 12GB of RAM? that's way below than what I expect I was thinking I might need 64GB Ideally I would like it to be one server too... Edited May 21, 2012 by owen1978
CyberNerd Posted May 21, 2012 Posted May 21, 2012 12GB of RAM? that's way below than what I expect I was thinking I might need 64GB Ideally I would like it to be one server too... Like I say, you could put it all on one server but you will probably be better off using more lower spec servers.
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