TS Requirements for 10 Temp Users?
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From: BenJ on 22 Mar 2010 12:50 Hi, I have a requirement to run terminal services for 10 temps, who will only be employeed for 4 months. I have an old test server, which I am planning to use as the TS server. But I'm not sure if the spec is high enough, or where the bottlenecks would be! As these temps are only going to be with us for 4 months, its not worth buying a whole new server! The temps will be running IE7 & Office 2007 - Word, Excel & Outlook only. Data is held on a file server, so these TS sessions will have mapped drives, and all data will be accessed from these drives. Server Spec: Dell Poweredge 400SC Dual P4 2.4Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 1GB NIC, 40GB IDE drive. I think the CPU & NIC is enough for 10 users. However, is 2GB ram enough, split between 10? Also, the hard drive I'm not sure of! I have a 17gb Seagate SCSI U160 15k rpm drive, which I could use instead. The 17gb capacity isn't a problem, as only W2k3 Svr & Office will be installed, as I said, all data is held on a file server. Some advice would be welcome! Thanks Ben
From: Silvia Doomra [MSFT] on 23 Mar 2010 00:33 Apart from what you have mentioned, you will need to purchase 10 TS CALs as well. You can only work with TS without licenses only for 90 days (for which a temporary license is issued) and after that you need to convert that to permanent else you cant access TS after that. Hope that helps! Thanks Silvia Remote Desktop Services Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/rds "BenJ" <bjblackmore(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:f70b412b-6aa3-487a-b707-55b4d9f3de99(a)m37g2000yqf.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > > I have a requirement to run terminal services for 10 temps, who will > only be employeed for 4 months. I have an old test server, which I am > planning to use as the TS server. But I'm not sure if the spec is high > enough, or where the bottlenecks would be! As these temps are only > going to be with us for 4 months, its not worth buying a whole new > server! > > The temps will be running IE7 & Office 2007 - Word, Excel & Outlook > only. Data is held on a file server, so these TS sessions will have > mapped drives, and all data will be accessed from these drives. > > Server Spec: Dell Poweredge 400SC Dual P4 2.4Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 1GB NIC, > 40GB IDE drive. > > I think the CPU & NIC is enough for 10 users. However, is 2GB ram > enough, split between 10? Also, the hard drive I'm not sure of! I have > a 17gb Seagate SCSI U160 15k rpm drive, which I could use instead. The > 17gb capacity isn't a problem, as only W2k3 Svr & Office will be > installed, as I said, all data is held on a file server. > > Some advice would be welcome! > > Thanks > > Ben
From: "Jeff Vandervoort" jeffv at jrvsystems dot on 23 Mar 2010 21:21 Re hardware, for 10 users, for 4 months, and temps who don't get a vote on how good performance is, you're probably OK with 2GB RAM. Glad I don't have to use it, though! SCSI would be a LOT better than IDE, esp. since with 2GB of RAM you'll be swapping a lot, and you'll burn a lot of CPU cycles with IDE. Folder redirection will help keep user data off the local drive, so hopefully you're using that, because 10 user profiles will fill a 17GB disk in no time without it. The good news is that Outlook on RDP won't use Cached Exchange Mode, so you won't have to cache mailboxes on the local drive. -- Jeff Vandervoort JRVsystems http://www.jrvsystems.com "BenJ" <bjblackmore(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:f70b412b-6aa3-487a-b707-55b4d9f3de99(a)m37g2000yqf.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > > I have a requirement to run terminal services for 10 temps, who will > only be employeed for 4 months. I have an old test server, which I am > planning to use as the TS server. But I'm not sure if the spec is high > enough, or where the bottlenecks would be! As these temps are only > going to be with us for 4 months, its not worth buying a whole new > server! > > The temps will be running IE7 & Office 2007 - Word, Excel & Outlook > only. Data is held on a file server, so these TS sessions will have > mapped drives, and all data will be accessed from these drives. > > Server Spec: Dell Poweredge 400SC Dual P4 2.4Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 1GB NIC, > 40GB IDE drive. > > I think the CPU & NIC is enough for 10 users. However, is 2GB ram > enough, split between 10? Also, the hard drive I'm not sure of! I have > a 17gb Seagate SCSI U160 15k rpm drive, which I could use instead. The > 17gb capacity isn't a problem, as only W2k3 Svr & Office will be > installed, as I said, all data is held on a file server. > > Some advice would be welcome! > > Thanks > > Ben
From: Falcon ITS on 24 Mar 2010 22:56 Hello, I think you would be ok with 10 users. You may want to add another 2 GB of RAM. It will perform a lot better with 4 than with 2 GB and 2 Gb of RAM is really not that expensive. I have a client with similar situation, they run 10 users. They just avoid surfing on TS because pages with animation like flash really kill the whole TS experience by making it very slow. Cheers, Miguel Fra http://www.falconits.com http://www.falconits.net
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