Re: Run Sun Ray Server on one machine, apps on another

From: Jorgen Moquist (jorgen.moquist_at_n.o.s.p.a.m.mailbox.swipnet.se)
Date: 04/20/05 

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:41:26 +0200

Casper H.S. *** wrote:
> banditstan2000@yahoo.co.uk (Garry) writes:
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>>I am currently running a SPARC box for apps and SRSS, problem is, it
>>is really loud. So, I was thinking of downgrading to a Sun Blade 100
>>which runs fairly quiet. However, this will not give me the power I
>>want, so I thought maybe run my apps on a Xeon machine and let the
>>SB100 do the Sun Ray stuff, and somehow export the Xeon machine's
>>display onto the SB100, so my desktop appears on the Sun Rays as if it
>>were running on the SB100, but in fact, it is on the Xeon machine.
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> You can also just use remote X displaying. Sun RAY a completely stateless
> thin client; a Xserver capable client like a SB100 can be used
> as a desktop with local window manager but remotely displaying X apps.
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>>So, has anyone any experience of the above? Is it likely to work?
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> Yep; X has been doing that for, what, 20 years?
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> Casper

been using that kind of config, for 4 racks of v210's.
16 are servers out of ~130 v210's.
xremote login to any v210 (except servers).
sound is what one misses, there would be no audio device setup.
and utswitch and such only works from a normal login.
or srss on each "workstation".
otherwise perfect working solution.

instead of upgrading 118 U10's we replaced them with
4 racks of v210's + sunray terminals.
16 server v210's have dual cpu + mirrored disks.
rest is just single cpu single disk.
jumpstarted same software as the replaced U10's
very little sw/apps verification ( 1 month test, 7 sr-terminals.)
so one rack v210 replaced one deskside U10.
noise and heat in to computer rooms, quiet at desk. plus smartcard
flexability.

16 servers are overkill planning to reduce to 8.

/jörgen