Originally Posted By: BradV
Good Morning,

Just trying to see if anyone has some insight into this problem. One of the groups I support was moved to a new building where they are not allowed to have desktop systems, only thin clients. They do all of their development work on their local desktops. So, the people in charge decided to give them two dedicated PowerEdge 6950 servers running Windows Server 2003 and using vmware to run some virtual workstations.

My question involves the network capacity needed. They are going to connect each server via a single 100MB connection to a switch with a single 1GB connection.

We are planning on running about 10 virtual desktops on each server. Is 100MB going to provide enough bandwidth for that?

Regards,

Brad


I find it very strange that the building gets to dictate what their tenants use as their desktop computer.

I run a 100+ user 6 server terminal server farm, where all of the users are remote to the data center. we are using a 10mb pipe at the data center, and as of right now, we are only using about 25% of our available bandwidth.