Neil,

I could not agree more, but is there anybody out there with a real life solution...
(1 disk intensive application and 60 terminal users)

We have tried the following scale down model: On a dual Processor server with RAID 10 storage, we had 2 Virtual Machine (VM1 and VM2) running Windows 2003 with terminal server. Each of then had a virtual disk attach to them. If we put the FoxPro database on the disk of VM1, VM2 has to access it via a network share. The speed to access the data is doubled on VM2 even if both vistual machine reside in the same physical sever...




>Hi,
>The hardware requirements vary from app to app depending on disk I/O bottlenecks etc. How do the existing server perform i.e. do >some performance analysis on them. RAID10 WILL give great performance.

>See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc786809(WS.10).aspx for capacity planning.



>>Many companies with FoxPro applications uses Windows Terminal Service (RDS in 2008 for Remote Desktop Service).
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>>We have a MRP/ERP system install in many companies using a single DC server with 15-30 users. The application is more Disk intensive than CPU. This is mainly the reason why we run the application on the server...The application is always running on the s>ame machine that contains the storage.
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>>What would you sugest for a company with 60-80 users ?
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>>- A huge terminal server (Dual quad core with maximum memory with a RAID-10) ?
>>- Two terminal server with a seperate storage....(What king of storage? NAS Fiber channel SAN ???) that can compete with internal >storage ???
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>>- Other solutions ??? VMWARE...??? Anything ??
Regards N Mc Donald