[K12OSN] Re: rdesktop | MS Licensing | Scaling 2003 terminal services.

[John Baillie]

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posted twice.

John

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 09:47, John Baillie wrote:
> Plans are moving along well for our pilot project for moving terminals
> into the classrooms. I'm still sifting through the past posts on server
> specs, scsi vs ata or sata, SW raid vs HW raid AMD vs Intel etc. Meeting
> budget and trying to maintain scalability is a bit of a chore. We were
> planning on purchasing two new servers one for the additional K12LTS and
> another for the 2003 Terminal server but if we can use one of our
> Proliant 6000's for Win 2003 I would have more breathing room for the
> other server. 
> 
> At Riverside they are using a quad 500 to host win 2000 terminal
> services. In a previous post Paul Nelson mentioned that their server can
> handle about 20 connections. 
> 
> We have still have two of those Proliant 6000's that were donated last
> summer (quad 500's and 2GB ram) collecting dust. We will only be
> providing a few small apps via 2003 terminal server and I'm wondering
> how well they would scale without running apps like MS Office and
> FrontPage.
> 
> If they don't scale well does MS licensing allow us to move the OS and
> CALs to a new server?
> 
> John