450 XP VM’s on VMware and 5 x4600’s
January 9th, 2007 by Lou
This popped up on the SunRay Users mailing list today. David R. Partington is running a VMware installation of 5 x4600’s hosting 450 simultaneous XP VM’s. SunRay provides the desktops for these machines through the Windows connector.
… 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’ll be watching this thread closely.
vmware, x4600, xp
Where did the awesome photo come from.
Lee, I took the photo down at the “Garden of the Gods” in Colorado Springs. It is an HDR built from three exposures and processed with Photomatix tone mapping software.