[SunRay-Users] RE: Wow...

[Partington, David R Mr (NGIT) USAIC&FH]

Lou,
I have no problem with you reposting. I don't have a blog anywhere, I though
about it but don't know where to start one. I have been working with Sun
Rays for over 6 years. We are also pushing the Virtual archutecture as hard
as we can. I read your blogs on the esx and VM. I see you have also build
ESX on the 4100, I did a several pilots on loaded V40Z and 4100's. We are
also planning on a large data center consolidation. I will forward you some
of our sizing results. 

Take care

David Partington  

-----Original Message-----
From: sunray-users-bounces at filibeto.org
[mailto:sunray-users-bounces at filibeto.org] On Behalf Of Lou Springer
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 2:53 PM
To: SunRay-Users mailing list
Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] RE: Wow...

Dave, very interesting stuff.

May I quote or paraphase your email on my blog: blog.louspringer.com?

I have some VMware stuff at
http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/esx-on-x4600/
http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/
http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/27/the-hurdles/  

Do you have a blog I can read?

Lou


Partington, David R Mr (NGIT) USAIC&FH wrote:
> Mike,
> We have close to 3000 Sun Ray's in production at Ft Huachuca. We have 
> some Solaris Desktops, but the majority is Terminal Server Desktops. 
> The problem with terminal servers is that the individual students dont 
> have individual Windows IP's, and a few apps don't work well terminal 
> services. To solve this issue we conducted a couple of pilots running 
> Windows XP VM's with VMWARE ESX. The pilot was very successful and we 
> were able to establish a baseline for scalablity. What we determined 
> was that we could run 80 users on a single 4600. Our (5)4600's have 
> 64GB of Ram and 8 dual core CPU's. Each 4600 has 8 4GB FCAL ports 
> attached to a 27TB file Server. For each VM session, we have allocate 
> 2GB of RAM and 70GB of Disk. On the five 4600's we are provided 450 
> simultaneous XP VM's. The XP VM are served out to the Sun Ray's via 
> the uttsc windows connector. The cost savings over a FAT client is 
> 70%. I will post more results later.  If you have any further questions
E-mail me.
>
> Thanks Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ellis, Mike [mailto:Mike.Ellis at fmr.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:43 PM
> To: david.partington at us.army.mil
> Subject: Wow...
>
> I'm sorry to hear about the problem you're having. Hopefully it's a 
> quick fix.
>
> If you don't mind me asking, is there anything you can share about the 
> 5x x4600's you're running VMware on? I would assume its virtualized XP 
> instances, or something along those lines. Any experiences you can 
> share with VMware on such a large platform (with boatloads of 
> instances?) would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
>  -- MikeE
>
> Michael J. Ellis (mike.ellis at fidelity.com) FISC/UNIX Engineering 400 
> Puritan Way (M2G) Marlborough, MA 01752
> Phone: 508-787-8564
>
>
> --
>
> I am running 3 Sun T2000's in a failover, with non smart card CAM Mode 
> connecting to 5 Sun 4600 ESX (VMWARE Servers) via RDP. The SR Servers 
> are running Solaris 10 with SRSS 4.0. I don't know if this is a keyboard
issue.
> Has anyone else seen this problem, and is there a work-around.
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