hardware to support 4000 to 5000 users on single 2003 server

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I need to build a shared server that will have 4 to 5 thousand users
connecting to 2 terabytes of data for file and print. Anyone have any idea
what hardware specs would be needed (real world) for this sort of load.
 
ptatherton said:
I need to build a shared server that will have 4 to 5 thousand users
connecting to 2 terabytes of data for file and print. Anyone have any idea
what hardware specs would be needed (real world) for this sort of load.
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That depends a lot on what the server is doing and what the users are doing.

Try to quantify the load in something like requests per second or
megabyte per second, that will help you identify possible bottle necks.

Is some part of the data going to be more popular, so that you would
benefit much from having a lot of memory for caching?
 
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