[THIN] Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Scalability of VMWare workstation 5 on PS
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:58:53 -0700
Great suggestions- thanks!
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
www.thinclient.net
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Daniel Sidler
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:43 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Scalability of VMWare workstation 5 on PS
Reminds me of this:
<http://techrepublic.com.com/i/tr/downloads/home/windows_xp_services_tha
t_can_be_disabled.pdf>
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Mangan
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:36 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Scalability of VMWare
> workstation 5 on PS
>
> Of course stripping everything possible from the Guest XP
> host will help considerably. It is likely that there are
> lots of services and drivers you can take out since all they
> do is log on to run that one app. If the app will run on an
> older OS that will help - even an unpatched XP without any
> service packs would be smaller.
>
> tim
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:38 PM
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> Subject: SPAM-LOW: [THIN] Re: Scalability of VMWare
> workstation 5 on PS
>
>
> Tim,
>
> Thanks for answering the question and avoiding questioning
> the question!
>
> Yes, we have tried everything possible with this app
> including AIE, virtual IP/Loopback, Softricity, etc. It is a
> very low overhead application that is basically run once,
> logs into a call center processing system to re-direct the
> phone line and then just sits there while the agent works.
> Disk access, RAM, CPU, etc are negligible. The only real
> impact will be the base RAM is takes to run the VM itself. It
> is currently running on MS Virtual PC on Citrix at this site.
> Moving to ESX is the leading option, but it adds a layer of
> cost and complexity which is not ideal for this client's
> environment. ESX with Virtual Center and V Motion would add
> 30K to the project and we are exploring using those same
> hardware boxes to simply add more app servers to the farm and
> publish M workstation instead.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Greenberg
> Thin Client Computing
> 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
> Scottsdale, AZ 85262
> (602) 432-8649
> www.thinclient.net
> steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Mangan
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 7:40 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: SPAM-LOW: Scalability of VMWare
> workstation 5 on PS
>
> Steve,
>
> I run workstation, as well as GSX and MS Virtual Server in a
> lab environment all the time. In your (customer) situation
> running a few virtual servers that will be desktop OS's will
> be OK - assuming the host has sufficient Memory. I typically
> keep 8-10 virtual OSs up on any given box with "reasonable"
> performance. If the app itself does a lot of disk access
> then disk speed becomes important, but it really is a memory
> thing that is most limiting.
>
> Not optimal, but you said you didn't want to get into that,
> and I know that you clearly are familiar with application
> virtualization which would be the more obvious alternative choice.
>
> tim
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:56 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: SPAM-LOW: [THIN] Scalability of VMWare workstation 5 on PS
>
>
> Does anyone have any scaling feedback on running VMWare
> workstation 5 on PS as a published app serving up XP
> desktops? # of sessions per server, etc.
> would be helpful
>
> Please don't respond to debate the merits, this is for a
> customer project in which a single app will be run from these
> XP instances and it must be done this way!!!!
>
> thanks
>
> Steve Greenberg
> Thin Client Computing
> 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
> Scottsdale, AZ 85262
> (602) 432-8649
> www.thinclient.net
> steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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