[SunRay-Users] RE: Wow...

[Lou Springer]

Thanks, here's the post:

http://blog.louspringer.com/2007/01/09/450-xp-vms-on-vmware-and-4600/

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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