thin client server suggestion?

[Jim McQuillan]

Matt,

Take a look at our wiki page on server sizing:

   http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/ServerSizing

It'll give you a rough idea.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Well, as I was saying earlier, I'm itching to set up a thin client lab
> in my computers course; I was being held back by lack of funds to buy
> a real server.  Now it looks like we may have found someone with some
> cash to buy us one...  so I was wondering what exactly I should ask
> for.  THe tuxlabs documentation suggests:
> - 2 gig ram
> - SCSI drives
> - gigabit ethernet (also gigabit ethernet on the switch, which I don't
> have -- we only have donated 3Com 3300 swtiches, which are nice but
> all 10/100 (far as I know, anyway).
>
> Already, this is geting tough -- e.g. we don't have the gigabit
> switch...  So I am wondering how to prioritize the various
> requirements.  So if folks don't mind, maybe y'all could suggest
> minimum and (within reason) optimal configurations for a server,
> including things like:
>
> - what kind lf CPU (does it matter if it's 64-bit?  is a
> dual-processor machine - which about doubles the minimum price, I
> think -  vastly more desirable?)
> - how much and what kind of RAM?
> - How big a deal does SCSI make?  Does SATA, or SATA RAID, help make
> IDE performance closer to SCSI?
> - is gigabit ethernet an absolute requirement?
> - any other hardware config questions I've failed to notice...
>
> thanks loads, again.
>
> matt
>
>
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