My company has been presented with an opportunity to get some new software and the company suggests we run it as a served application via Terminal Services. Last time I played with application serving in terminal services was when Windows 2000 was new, so I'm a little rusty.
My first question though is, what kind of hardware requirements do you think a terminal server that is supplying around 10 concurrent users to a database program would need? I mean I am all for not worrying about how much it needs and buying a nice big fat server so it won't be a problem... but we are a non-profit and thus getting anything technology wise is, well, hard. So I'll need some help with what you all think of what the minimum specs for something like that would be.
(Or at very least point me to some resources that might help. I've been Googling this morning and I can find all sorts of whitepapers on all sorts of topics on TS, and I have gotten distracted, but I just need some solid numbers right now. (EX: 5 users per cpu/core is the most you want to push, with a gig of ram per user, etc... that kind of stuff))
Thanks!
My first question though is, what kind of hardware requirements do you think a terminal server that is supplying around 10 concurrent users to a database program would need? I mean I am all for not worrying about how much it needs and buying a nice big fat server so it won't be a problem... but we are a non-profit and thus getting anything technology wise is, well, hard. So I'll need some help with what you all think of what the minimum specs for something like that would be.
(Or at very least point me to some resources that might help. I've been Googling this morning and I can find all sorts of whitepapers on all sorts of topics on TS, and I have gotten distracted, but I just need some solid numbers right now. (EX: 5 users per cpu/core is the most you want to push, with a gig of ram per user, etc... that kind of stuff))
Thanks!