Capacity Planning

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Keith N

Greetings,

I am working on a project that will involve setting up TS
for 75 - 100 thin clients. Using Terminal Services with
Word, Excel and Outlook XP what would the server require
as far as number of CPUs, memory and diskspace? Also, I
may have to run IBM's Client Access for each of the thin
clients.

Any ideas of how to come up with a server spec for this
type of installation? Thanks in advance.
 
I would first checkout the scaling white papers from
Microsoft's site. Those should give you a good idea of
what you'll encounter.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/administratio
n/terminal/tscaling.asp

In general you should focus your attention on memory,
rather than the processors. Assume the Os will consume
from 100-200Mb of memory and each user will consume around
20-50MB of memory.

-M
 
Do you happen to know if terminal services can go beyond the 4GB mark (if you have the enterprise edition and have morethan 4GB of RAM installed). Or do I need datacenter edition to do that. Just wondering if the TS service will scale out like SQL or Exchange.
 
The terminal service should scale out linearly like the
other services.

And yes, you'll need datacenter if you want to address
more than 4GB or memory.

-M
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Do you happen to know if terminal services can go beyond
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the 4GB mark (if you have the enterprise edition and have
morethan 4GB of RAM installed). Or do I need datacenter
edition to do that. Just wondering if the TS service will
scale out like SQL or Exchange.
 
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