The concept is to make the pipeline between the TS and the FS as big as possible, thereby minimizing the bottleneck effect.
We can have fast processors, fast disks, lots of memory, but ultimately something has to be the bottleneck, and in most situations this is probably the network. Hard disk I/O is a heck of a lot faster than 100mbps can pipeline, especially when you're competing with others for the bandwidth. A typical user's machine isn't going to have a 1-gig connection running full duplex. To make all users 1-gig at full duplex would be costly. But in a server environment such as I describe you can spend a few bucks and everyone benefits. Once you decide to go this route, the next biggie is making certain that your TS platform is fat on memory and fleet afoot. Having said that, in our plants we run multiple terminal servers with Citrix on one Dell ESX machine running VMWare. Turns out the virtual terminal servers are quite capable. Emmitt Dove Manager, DairyPak Business Systems Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (203) 643-8022 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey M. Watson Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:55 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: terminal services? can I do that by bridging the two connections togethor? That might help alone :-) Thanks Emmitt. Jeff Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tube Methods, Inc. 610-279-7700 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emmitt Dove Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:24 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: terminal services? Jeff, We use Citrix on top of TS. You could probably do the same without Citrix, but I believe it to be less robust / manageable. The key for us in speed boost is that both the terminal servers and the file server have dual, teamed 1gb NICs connected to a gigabit Cisco switch. By running the adapters full duplex and teamed, we can approach 4gb throughput. Emmitt Dove Manager, DairyPak Business Systems Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (203) 643-8022 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey M. Watson Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:41 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - terminal services? I remember somewhere along the line someone said they had everyone running rbase through terminal services and experienced great gains in lickity speed, etc. Does anyone know/recall how you would implement this? Thanks :-D Jeff Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tube Methods, Inc. 610-279-7700
