[Casper] server performances

[Ernst, Craig S.]

You do also have to keep in mind the client end, what its specs are, and what type of network it is attached to.

You have roughly the same setup as me, I just have more RAM really. I don't serve AFP from my Xserve I actually have SMB from our primary file storage for imaging Win as well as Mac on a Windows server attached to some SAN.

I wonder what Thomas Larkin does, he has a decent sized deployment, and so does Nathaniel, but perhaps they are more distributed.

Craig E


On 9/10/08 5:34 AM, "Criss Myers" <cmyers at uclan.ac.uk> wrote:



 Hi ALL,



 As you people seem to have many more servers and clients than me I thought you'd be good people to ask about performance.



 I have 145 clients, being increased by 83.


 I have 1 XServe Quad core 2 x 2.8 with 2gb of ram and bonded Ethernet ports


 All clients and servers running 10.5.4 and casper 6.01



 I am using AFP for my distribution port and each mac is getting a total install of about 60gb (final cut studio)



 I am currently imaging 100 macs and the server is running at 90% cpu and 100% ram and with a throughput of mac 54MB/sec



 A) is this what i should expect? or is my setup not performing well?


 B) what kind of setup do you people have to deploy how many macs and how big a deployment size?


 C) any advice on how to improve my set, more ram, fibre cards, drive setups, more servers?



 Regards



 Criss



Criss Myers

Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)

Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5

LIS Business Support Team

Library 301

University of Central Lancashire

Preston PR1 2HE

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01772 895054


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