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Hi,
We have a Terminal Server that is a Windows 2003 R2 server with 4GB ram, Intel Xeon 2Ghz. It hosts the point of sale application for remote locations to access & its also the company file server locally. How many remote concurrent connections can this server support before it runs out of resources & slows down to a crawl?
We have a Terminal Server that is a Windows 2003 R2 server with 4GB ram, Intel Xeon 2Ghz. It hosts the point of sale application for remote locations to access & its also the company file server locally. How many remote concurrent connections can this server support before it runs out of resources & slows down to a crawl?
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Looking at the memory usage I'd suggest 18 to 20 users maximum, I've no idea from that screenshot how your disk system is coping, you can monitor the disks queues in Performance Monitoring to see how they are, the queues should be very low on a system that that is keeping up with the reads and writes but to be honest you could probably tell from the performance of your apps in the sessions whether you are having problems or not.
I would however suggest putting more RAM in the server, the more the better.
How many users do you want to get connected to the server?
I would however suggest putting more RAM in the server, the more the better.
How many users do you want to get connected to the server?
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What is the disk subsystem the server is using, a multi disk RAID 10 or RAID 5 system with maybe 5 or 6 disks (not including parity or hotspares) should be sufficient but it largely depends on the number of users actively using it as a file server as well.
Are we looking at tens or hundreds of users, is the server connected via gigabit ethernet, lots of large files or many small ones, mainly reads or writes or a even mixture?
To be perfectly honest the hardware you've given us so far sounds underpowered for what you are intending, any upgrade options available?