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

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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Huck wrote:

> only 25 clients per server?
> seems a bit on the low side no?

they always seem to grow, exponentially usually

Bob

>
> --Huck
>
> norbert wrote:
>
> > 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!
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> All inputs are appriciated.
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >> /daniel
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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