[K12OSN] Large scale implementation in the pipe, input needed.

norbert bear2bar at netscape.net
Thu Aug 19 21:55:02 UTC 2004


Hi Daniel,

This is an issue that has come up countless times, school boards try to 
centralise the server in the misguided belief that they willl reduce the 
amount of maintenance.... (They've been working with M$ for far too long 
!!!)
X-windows is a very "heavy" protocol, make your life simple install 
local servers in each school & run the client from them. I would put 
about 25 client per server, have the servers clustered & sit back & relax.

good luck

norbert

daniel.hedblom at skola.solleftea.se wrote:

>Hi!
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>At the school district im an admin at there are talks about implementing a
>large scale k12 LTSP solution. We have been testing succesfully on one
>school but only with about 15 clients. The latest bid is to have one big
>central server. It will be serving a cuple of other schools over 1 gbit
>fiber connections. An estimate over the number of clients would be about
>50-60 at two schools and maybe 40 additional from other smaller schools
>and locations.
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>I have been pondering this quite a bit and im a bit concerned about the
>cost of the server and backbones etc. Since other traffic flows in the
>same fibers there will have to be some kind of vlan separating the traffic
>since passwords etc flows unencrypted between client/server. I really
>would appriciate input on this since i have a thing for linux and wouldnt
>want an implementation to go wrong at my own turf. Is a central server a
>good solution or is the benefit smaller than percieved? Have anyone done
>this in a grand scale and what was the pitfalls in those cases?
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>Im perticulary interested in how scaling have been solved on big sites.
>Have tried an openmosix cluster but the benefit was small since we dont
>run any cpu intensive applications.
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>In short, is it a good solution to get a big iron hosting everything
>instead of spreading several smaller Terminal Servers onsite and just
>centralize /home and logins?
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>All inputs are appriciated.
>
>Cheers!
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>/daniel
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