Calling all terminal server experts
what is the best environments for a TS install?
reason i ask is that we have a client who mostly use internet/sage and traffic software, there are less than 50 employees , an IT company has deployed 3 terminal servers with 5 adsl lines and a load balancer.
personally i think thats overkill but am happy to hear opinions.
they all run fat clients as well (Xp/Vista)
I'll give 500 to the best answer.
reason i ask is that we have a client who mostly use internet/sage and traffic software, there are less than 50 employees , an IT company has deployed 3 terminal servers with 5 adsl lines and a load balancer.
personally i think thats overkill but am happy to hear opinions.
they all run fat clients as well (Xp/Vista)
I'll give 500 to the best answer.
Hello, it is tough to say what kind of server capacity you need without knowing the overhead of the applications you will be running. I set up ERP systems with some farily powerful users. On a server with dual CPUs (current technology) and 4GB of RAM I can comfortable host 30 concurrent users. Less intensive applications for me scale closer to 45-50 ccu without suffering much performance loss.
Just a general piece of advice, be careful with R2 since the 64-bit aspect can cause application and print driver compatability issues.
Like the post above states, perhaps the design is for two terminal servers and one "helper system" running TSWeb, Session Directory, etc. If it is indeed three application servers, perhpas the thinking was "we need to be able to tolerate one server loss and maintain full performance". If this is the case, stay with three!
Just a general piece of advice, be careful with R2 since the 64-bit aspect can cause application and print driver compatability issues.
Like the post above states, perhaps the design is for two terminal servers and one "helper system" running TSWeb, Session Directory, etc. If it is indeed three application servers, perhpas the thinking was "we need to be able to tolerate one server loss and maintain full performance". If this is the case, stay with three!
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server os is 2003 sp3 they also have a virtual sbs which is their exchange server
they are located less then 3 miles from an exchange, the lines are purely for internet traffic, they rarely use vpn and if they do its one user or two a time.
they use office on the ts and run a vehicle tracking app which isnt that intensive.
why cant they just have 2 stand alone seervers 2008 r2 with 10gb ram each, a load balancer and 2/3 adsl lines at most?
they are located less then 3 miles from an exchange, the lines are purely for internet traffic, they rarely use vpn and if they do its one user or two a time.
they use office on the ts and run a vehicle tracking app which isnt that intensive.
why cant they just have 2 stand alone seervers 2008 r2 with 10gb ram each, a load balancer and 2/3 adsl lines at most?
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excellent thanks
My assumption : Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 with atleast 8 GB of memory each
2 servers are good in load balacing, 3rd can be added for extra layer or as gateway, web access and licensing server. Not required really
Hoping they are not running Outlook in cache mode as that is kill as most of my experience,
5 ADSL Lines : Which part of the world we are talking here ? What's the throughput and how people are connecting for outside ?
Assumption: You are using this for internet and not for yours to connect inside, The need is stable bandwidth with some redundancy, That's it .. 2-5 depends on client situation and location