[THIN] Re: VMWare Server Sizing
- From: "Ron Oglesby" <roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:16:29 -0600
Tony,
e-mail me off list about the "one big farm" idea. I have some insight
from Citrix test and CCS on the size limitations in the current
architecture. If you are really looking at 100's of thousands of users
we should get together so I can give you some ideas and knowledge that
was passed to me.
Ron Oglesby
Senior Technical Architect
Microsoft MVP, Windows Server=20
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Lyne [mailto:Tony.Lyne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 3:05 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMWare Server Sizing
If this project kicks off and Im sure it will be successful it will most
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certainly be a reference site for all of NZ, but that's not what this =
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thread is about.=3D20
We will be doing a pilot, especially for an implementation of this size,
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as this project will be considered a large server farm even by =3D
international standards, so will need to be Project Managed properly by
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us. That's what I mean by well see how it goes.
Hardware costs versus VMware licensing costs is irrelevant in this =3D
project as they get special pricing due to their line of business.
I don't believe the RSL is the reason why VMware shouldn't be considered
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in this case. There will still be areas of splashing out lots of $$$ for
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hardware which will potentially be under utilized. Where by running say
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2-5 sessions would make more effective use of hardware at less of a cost
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to the client.
Having said that its still yet to be proven in the POC but the initial =
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planning looks very favorable.
RON, Zen will be used as the deployment/patch management component of =
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the farm. Zen is very much like Altiris now. I initially speced Altiris
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to do the patch management/automated installs and maintenance, using our
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own methodologies we have devised. But thought what's the point, its =3D
another layer of unneeded complexity and expense where Zen can do all of
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this for this client, as they already have it, so well change out =3D
methodologies to suit.
It's also not going to be one big farm but so far 2 farms spanning =3D
various cities and countries. My main concerns is weather the Telco can
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garatuee data through-put rates and what other traffic the IMA will have
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to contest with on the WAN. So may have to look at packet shaping and =
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queuing.=3D20
The pilot phase will be only a few hundred users and from what I have =
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gathered yesterday the number of concurrent users will drop to possibly
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under a thousand. My how things have changed over the past few days.
Anyway its still in the planning/consulting phase at the mo, so will be
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a few weeks before things start moving properly.=3D20
Tony Lyne
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas, Jeremy [mailto:Jeremy.Thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=3D20
Sent: Monday, 23 February 2004 11:10 p.m.
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMWare Server Sizing
Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but...
I thought that the main advantage of using VMware with Terminal Servers
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as that you would make the servers more scalable by allowing more users
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o log on to the same hardware before you reach the Registry Size Limit =
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00-250 users). As this limitation has gone with Windows 2003, why use =
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are.
The other reason would be so you can run lots of vertical servers with =
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fferent applications and just a few users on each, but I don't think you
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want to do that...
As the RSL issue has gone, then the servers are able to support as many
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sers with 2 VM TSs running per machine as they are with a base TS =3D
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, and the same disks. Why on earth would you want to consider an extra =
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yer of complexity on these servers?
For a 5000+ user farm, you need to get your design checked and approved
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y MS, Citrix and the Hardware supplier. Uptime and supportability should
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be very important, and if you intend scaling it much further, it would =
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rtainly become a showcase project for NZ. Therefore, you'd want to get =
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ur suppliers involved ASAP. Adding VMware as well is an added layer of =
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mplexity.
"I was expecting to start with each server running 2 VMware sessions =3D
each
and see how that goes."
Don't rely on "see how it goes" - test and KNOW just how far you can go.
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Mind you, quite how you do that needs a seperate thread.
Regards,
Jeremy Thomas
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Lyne [mailto:Tony.Lyne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: zondag 22 februari 2004 21:04
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] VMWare Server Sizing
Guys,
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Im in the middle of designing a Citrix farm for a client and it seems
the VMWare subject has been thrashed around here quite a bit. But one
thing I can find is the number is VMware sessions that should be run per
server before serious performance issues are hit.
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The farm will be running Linux then Vmware on that which will be
launching multiple VMWare Win2k3 server sessions with MFXPa/e.=3D3D20
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If they will only be doing the basic work like MS Office and other
office applications, typically from experience how many VMware sessions
would people expect to get per server before they notices a performance
hit?
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The server kit will be DL360G3's with 4GB RAM and mirrored disks.
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I was expecting to start with each server running 2 VMware sessions each
and see how that goes.
There will most likely be vertical application servers as well.
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Tony Lyne
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