[THIN] Re: Server capabilities

  • From: "Ron Oglesby" <roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:57:48 -0500

Yeah right.....  It all depends on the apps. And even with the apps it
will be easier to do on 2k3, 

Ron Oglesby
Senior Technical Architect
 
RapidApp
Office 312.372.7188
Mobile 815.325.7618
email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Mann [mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:18 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Server capabilities

We're putting together a proposal to purchase Citrix since our TS
environment isn't going away anytime soon.  I have a few questions that
will
reflect the proposal.

1) We use Win2000 TS in a Win2003 AD enviroment.  Licensing costs for
Win2003 TS are substancial compared to sticking with Win2000 TS.
Considering we would put MF XP and the newest FR ontop of our current
servers, are there any advantages gained by spending the costs to
upgrade to
Win2003 TS and revamp our licensing?

2) I have 5 terminal servers now but plan to consolidated down to my 2
newest servers which are Dell PE2650s with Dual P4 Xenon 1.8ghz and 2
gigs
of RAM.  I'd say I have a total of 50 users combined in my 4 terminal
servers on any given basis.  Of that 50, maybe 10% do a full desktop
type
environment.  We actually have an app we found that locks the desktop
and
gives you only icons that is specified within the app.  So this 10% of
users
has outlook, word, excel, and IE.  The other 90% of the users use 1 or 2
applications that are launched through their profile.  They are fairly
low
CPU and memory useage apps.

Based on those 2 PE2650s, if I decided I wanted to publish full
desktops,
how many users could I support across each server without a problem?

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