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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">We have a 6,200 client deployment. I have 1 JSS which is a dual quad-core xeon intel Xserve with 8gigs of RAM, and then I have the same thing with 4gigs of RAM at each building as a master file server and netboot/image server. </font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Then I have mac minis set up as fail over distribution points that are running OS X server. Last year all I had were the Mac minis, and it did work. Our old JSS was a G5 dual processor with 6 gigs of ram and the mysql daemon just destroyed that processor. It was always maxed out. Now that I have the new xserve I am sitting between 10 to 20 percent usage for 6,200 clients. Your biggest bottle neck will always be disk I/O.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">I created one giant image for mass imaging and will go back and do package based when I get a chance to separate all the packages into configurations. I just don't have time to do that at the moment. My image is dual boot and about 9 gigs in size and I can do 20 clients at once in about 20 to 25 minutes. </font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">I don't think network services will increase performance if you have slow disk I/O. I do have RAID 0 running on my Casper servers. </font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Running OS X 10.5.4 server, Casper 6.01</font> </p>
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<br>___________________________<BR>Thomas Larkin<BR>TIS Department<BR>KCKPS USD500<BR><a href="mailto:tlarki@kckps.org">tlarki@kckps.org</a><BR>cell: 913-449-7589<BR>office: 913-627-0351<BR><BR><BR><br><br>>>> <NATHANIEL.LINDLEY@spps.org> 09/10/08 8:18 AM >>><br><br content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Our main stress is not the imaging part, I've accepted that it will be slower b/c file copy instead of block copy for the configuration and not being multi-cast.  I have three main servers for imaging reasons.   The JSS is Intel 8-core, w/8GB RAM, 3 drive Hardware RAID.   The NetBoot server is G5 w.8GB RAM and the Master file share is Intel 8-core/8GB RAM, attached to Promise RAID.   So we've divieded up the load for imaging to 3 servers, all Gigibit with client on 100MB.   (How much is a 48-port gigiabit Cisco switch!?!?!?!?!)</font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">We notice that imaging  a couple computers takes about the same amount of time as a bunch.  Most we have done is about 20 at a time.  The AFP filecopy is limited and the servers never top out.  </font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Not sure if that helps,  I'm curious to see if we put the Master fileshare on a Windows box with ExtremeZ-IP (AFP) or SMB if the performance would increase. . . </font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">-Nathaniel</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">SPPS</font><br><br><br><br><br> </p>
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<b><font size="1" face="sans-serif">"Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS@uwec.edu></font></b><font size="1" face="sans-serif"> </font><br><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Sent by: casper-bounces@list.jamfsoftware.com</font> </p>
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<font size="2" face="Verdana">You do also have to keep in mind the client end, what its specs are, and what type of network it is attached to.<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">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.<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">I wonder what Thomas Larkin does, he has a decent sized deployment, and so does Nathaniel, but perhaps they are more distributed.<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">Craig E<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">On 9/10/08 5:34 AM, "Criss Myers" <</font><font color="blue" size="2" face="Verdana"><a href="cmyers@uclan.ac.uk"><u>cmyers@uclan.ac.uk</u></a></font><font size="2" face="Verdana">> wrote:<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><br><font size="2" face="Verdana"> <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">Hi ALL,</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">   <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">     <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">As you people seem to have many more servers and clients than me I thought you'd be good people to ask about performance.</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">    <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">     <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">I have 145 clients, being increased by 83.</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">    <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">I have 1 XServe Quad core 2 x 2.8 with 2gb of ram and bonded Ethernet ports</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">   <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">All clients and servers running 10.5.4 and casper 6.01</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">    <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">     <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">I am using AFP for my distribution port and each mac is getting a total install of about 60gb (final cut studio)</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">   <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">     <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">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</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">    <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">     <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">A) is this what i should expect? or is my setup not performing well?</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">   <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">B) what kind of setup do you people have to deploy how many macs and how big a deployment size?</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">   <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">C) any advice on how to improve my set, more ram, fibre cards, drive setups, more servers?</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">   <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">     <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">Regards</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">   <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">     <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Grande">Criss</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">   <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">     <br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">Criss Myers<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">LIS Business Support Team<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">Library 301<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">University of Central Lancashire<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">Preston PR1 2HE<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">Ex 5054<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana">01772 895054<br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"><br style="font-size: 2; font-family: Verdana"></font><font size="2"><tt>_______________________________________________<br style="font-size: 2">Casper mailing list<br style="font-size: 2">Casper@list.jamfsoftware.com<br style="font-size: 2"><a href="http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper">http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper<br style="font-size: 2"></a></tt></font><br>
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