Re: [K12OSN] Linking Servers?

Steve Wright (paua@quicksilver.net.nz)
Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:11:31 +1300

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SHerl86064@aol.com wrote:

>my school is looking at LTSP as a possible upgrade path for our network.  One of the problems we are having is with scaliblity.  We need to be able to support 2-3 hundred  active users online and any one time.   Is this possible? If so how? Is there a way to cluster LTSP? any help you can provide would be a real big help. 
>

Steve,

It is perfectly feasible, and many such systems are in operation.

Basically, you use a number of Terminal Servers and a simple 
load-balancing scheme.  These Terminal Servers do not carry a local copy 
of /home - rather they NFS mount /home from an entirely seperate machine 
(the file-server machine.)  The File Server does not act as a Terminal 
Server.

See the Documentation for more info on this.  
http://k12linux.org/contents.html

Administration is centralised (mostly) at the file server machine.

2-3 hundred users will require substantial server and network hardware, 
and great care and some experience in setting it all up.

HTH,
Steve

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