>Hi everyone, I've got a potential big client who is looking for a hardware configration for our system. Our system utilizes VFP for the front-end and SQL Server 2000 for the backend. They are wanting to standup 30 facilities with 30 users each. Each facility data would be independent of each others, so I can just have a seperate database for each facility inside SQL Server. They are wanting to utilize Terminal Server for providing access to the application. They already have a secure wan in place (I'm not sure of it's configuration). Here is my first idea of the proposed hardware:
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>Option #1: Using Terminal Services
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>For running in a centralized terminal server environment, we would recommend
>two machines for the application servers, configured in a clustered environment
>to provide fail-over capability.  Each Application Server would be consists of:
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>Application Server
>4-Way  XEON MP Processors (Expandable to 8)
>Windows 2003 Server OS Enterprise Edition
>Terminal Services Installed and Licensed for 900 users (30 sites x 30 Users each)
>16 Gigs of Ram (Expandable to 32)
>2 – 140 Gig Hard Drives with Raid Configuration
>Gigabyte Network adapter to backbone
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>The database servers would be on separate machines, once again we suggest two machines
>in a clustered environment for fail-over.  Each site would have it’s own separate
>database within the SQL Server.
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>Database Server
>4-Way  XEON MP Processors (Expandable to 8)
>Windows 2003 Server OS Enterprise Edition
>16 Gigs of Ram (Expandable to 32)
>4 – 140 Gig Hard Drives with Raid Configuration
>Gigabyte Network adapter to backbone
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>I'm no hardware guru, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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>Thanks
>Kirk

Kirk,
I'm not too :) But at least I think it'd be either Intel Itanium based or AMD Opteron based (my take AMD Opteron - seeing Windows 2003 server).
Cetin