[THIN] Re: How many servers?
- From: "Brian Madden" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:23:21 -0400
Keep in mind that TScale's effectiveness is largely dependent on the
applications.
In my experience, TScale works best with the big stupid apps, like SAP,
Peoplesoft, Meditech, Oracle, etc, etc..
If you're only using Office, TScale gives maybe a 5-10% advantage instead of
35%. (I'm sure there are some back-door shenanigans going on at MS where
their apps just "happen" to run more efficiently than other non-MS apps..
which is why TScale doesn't work as well with them.)
Brian
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-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Matt Kosht
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:28 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: How many servers?
Take a look at Tscale (http://www.rtosoft.com). It will pay for itself and
then some by increasing your servers user capacity. In my experience about
35% more capacity or getting 4 server capacity with only 3 servers is my
rule of thumb. If you are estimating 7 servers you could get by with as few
as 5.
A nice bonus is some apps will run noticeably faster.
>>> Miguel-Guzman@xxxxxxx 9/24/2003 10:52:14 AM >>>
Hello,
Currently I am running 17 Win NT TSE servers w/2GB or RAM; these servers
will go to their knees when they get to the 40 user count.
I have been told to get us NEW servers so we all finally agreed to purchase
ProLiant BL20p G2 X3.06-512 Dual Processor Blade servers with 4GB of RAM.
I am going through a brainstorm here trying to figure out how many servers
to ask for...
The average user takes up form 24MB to 45MB of RAM per session; and we would
like to be able to always have an off-line server or at least if one fails
to not decrease the users performance. So far I have counted 1 server for
CSG & NFuse, 1 server for STA, and 7 MetaFrame XP Win 2003 servers.
Does this seem like a good amount?
Miguel Enrique Guzmán <mailto:Miguel-Guzman@xxxxxxx> CCA
Network Analyst I
(941) 917-7084
Information Systems
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System <http://www.smh.com/>
(941) 917-9000
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