[SunRay-Users] RE: Wow...

[Lou Springer]

Thanks much David. I was very excited to see your work. I had a feeling 
the VMware on 4600 would be great for managing many XP instances with 
SunRay for the display, but only have lab work to back that up.

As for where to start a blog, I'm running my own, but would probably use 
the wordpress.com blog service if I didn't.

Lou

Partington, David R Mr (NGIT) USAIC&FH wrote:
> 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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