There's such a huge amount of products (commercial) and so many options open-source that I would just like a little feedback as to what others would do in this situation.
I have 80 thin-clients that boot off of an LTSP server that is pretty bare bones. The user is presented with a login script where they can choose which back end server to use to host their X session. We have about 22 higher powered machines that students use for their day to day X session and statistical work. I would like to reduce the number of back end servers down to just a few. I would like to take maybe 3 beefy servers and have it appear as if its one machine, or a pool of resources (cpu and ram). So a user will simply boot via LTSP and there is some virtualization happening where the machine their session is running off of is essentially a cluster and their session is running off of any one of the three servers - load balanced. VMware View is a product that does this now. However... VMware is too expensive for our department. Too many products, too many licenses. I dont believe virtualbox can do this. We are running all RHEL5 and some RHEL6 on these back end machines. The LTSP server is Ubuntu 9.10. We're slightly out of date but we're on a secure network and everything is working! Is anyone doing this now? Does natively clustering with RHEL work well with LTSP? Looking for ideas. thank you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Systems Optimization Self Assessment Improve efficiency and utilization of IT resources. Drive out cost and improve service delivery. Take 5 minutes to use this Systems Optimization Self Assessment. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51450054/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
