[SunRay-Users] Sun x64 servers

[Alexander Koponen]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 c.silva at vtr.net wrote:
> Im planning to buy a couple of Sun x64 servers to deploy 20-30 SunRay users 
> in them, i have to use RHEL 4 btw.
>
> Any suggestion for the specs of the servers would be much appreciated :)

I got two Sun X4200 (with 2 dualcore opteron (that's 4 * 2,6GHz ) and 16GB 
ram in each, dual PSU, raid1 for the systemdisk) running RHEL AS 4 with 25 
users. It runs fine and I got 25 mathematicians doing mostly browsing, 
email, and sometimes matlab. I'm very pleased. The system will later run 
40 users and I wont need another server for this.

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4200/

Do note that I run all this in 32bit mode.

I even wrote a quick howto (but i didn't document the redundancy step yet)
http://www.mittag-leffler.se/~koponen/sunray.php

You can go from a new uninstalled server to a running system in a couple 
of hours since they are Red Hat certified. \o/

Good luck.

  -- Alexander


ps: i guess you could manage with slower machines, but I wouldn't do it. 
This is my personal opinion.


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