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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Our deployment currently sits at ~ 8,500 Macs. Our JSS is a Quad Core 3.0GHz Xserve with 16GB RAM. I currently mirror the drives (300GB 15k SAS) but we are moving to an internal RAID card and will set it up as a RAID 5. Our master file server is another Quad Core 2.8GHz Xserve with 8GB of RAM. That server is also our primary Apple SUS. We have at least an Xserve G5
with 5GB of RAM in each of our 50 sites as file distribution points. Our JSS and master file server are each setup so they have 2 1GB ethernet ports bonded. The distribution points are 1Gb. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Imaging actually goes pretty fast for us. Our standard 10.5 image is ~ 20GB. All of our applications are broken down into separate packages. We can image ~ 30-35 machines at the same time and it takes about an hour. We go to great lengths to ensure that the imaging starts at as close to the exact same time as possible. This allows the AFP client to maximize the RAM cache since each machine is getting approximately the same information at the same time. RAM and starting at the same time are very important when imaging via unicast. Staggering the imaging does not work fast at all in numbers over 10.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Our JSS performs OK. We have run into some issues where the connections seem to overwhelm the server, but Jamf support has been spending a lot of time helping us out. I don't believe it is due to a lack of adequate hardware. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Lucida Grande;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><b><a href="mailto:casper@list.jamfsoftware.com">casper@list.jamfsoftware.com</a> on September 10, 2008 at 8:53 AM -0700 wrote:</b></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:46:49 -0500</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">From: John Wetter <<a href="mailto:john_wetter@hopkins.k12.mn.us">john_wetter@hopkins.k12.mn.us</a>></font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">To: Casper List <<a href="mailto:casper@list.jamfsoftware.com">casper@list.jamfsoftware.com</a>></font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:C4ED4809.6193%25john_wetter@hopkins.k12.mn.us">C4ED4809.6193%john_wetter@hopkins.k12.mn.us</a>></font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">We have a deployment of about 4000 macs and this is what we use:</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">JSS: dual proc-quad core 2.8GHz w/8GB RAM on 10.5.4</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">Netboot/File serving: Dual G5 2.0GHz w/8GB RAM on 10.5.4</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">2 additional Distribution points - one powerMac and one windows blade server running ExtremeZ-IP on a SAN.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">Network - gigabit fiber between schools and between closets and switches, 10/100 to the desktop. We have a couple all-gigabit switches that we will bring around for special imaging projects.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">We max out the main package server at about 120MB/s when imaging a bunch of Macbooks on a gigabit connection which is probably about the realistic maximum. We never got close to this kind of performance on 10.4 and 2GB of RAM in the netboot/package server. I think the RAM is the key. AFP will use all the RAM you can throw at it. When imaging a bunch of iBooks in a gig switch (they are 100 only), we usually max out around 80MB/s or so.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">The JSS just cruises along for us. It's most busy when we're either doing a lot of imaging, or first thing in the morning when everything is turning on. For scheduled tasks, we run a startup and then a 30mins scheduled task to give some idea of load there.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">-John</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">On 9/10/08 5:34 AM, "Criss Myers" <<a href="mailto:CMyers@uclan.ac.uk">CMyers@uclan.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> Hi ALL,</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> 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></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> I have 145 clients, being increased by 83.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> I have 1 XServe Quad core 2 x 2.8 with 2gb of ram and bonded Ethernet ports</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> All clients and servers running 10.5.4 and casper 6.01</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> I am using AFP for my distribution port and each mac is getting a total install of about 60gb (final cut studio)</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> 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></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> A) is this what i should expect? or is my setup not performing well?</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> B) what kind of setup do you people have to deploy how many macs and how big a deployment size?</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> C) any advice on how to improve my set, more ram, fibre cards, drive setups, more servers?</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"> Regards</font></span></div>
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