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cnh
2009-03-02
2012-12-12
  • cnh

    cnh - 2009-03-02

    Hi there,

    I being followed http://drbl.sourceforge.net/one4all/drbl-sanboot.php to setup the Windows XP san-boot.

    My question is that if I would need to have 10 clients with Windows XP, do I make 10 images? Or do I share the same image?

    Thanks in advance.

     
    • Steven Shiau

      Steven Shiau - 2009-03-03

      Yes, 10 images for 10 machines.

       
    • obc88

      obc88 - 2009-06-22

      SAN boot isit possible to be able to deploy winXP image to be a diskless environment??
      i wanted to save money to purchase another 5more harddisk for my client PC, isit possible??

       
    • Steven Shiau

      Steven Shiau - 2009-06-22

      Yes, it's possible. However, by doing this, your server's hard drive might be a bottleneck. Since now one server has to deal with 5 clients with virtually 5 disks.
      Here from our test experience, 5 clients are acceptible... But more clients, the system will become slow.
      Of course, this really depends on the hardware, network, RAM...

      Steven.

       
    • obc88

      obc88 - 2009-06-22

      Mean if i have 30PCs without harddisk,  and all the client PCs using gigabit LAN & Gigabit switch , isit will slow down the operation??

       
      • Steven Shiau

        Steven Shiau - 2009-06-22

        obc88,
        For 30 clients... No, I think it won't work very well. It will be very slow. Since all the 30 clients will request AoE instructions and the server won't service that very will. Unless those 30 clients won't be used simultaneously.

        Steve.

         

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