How to Scale a Server to Meet the Needs of Twenty Users

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Introduction A local education authority has requested a report outlining a design a framework based desktop environment that is capable of supplying at least twenty IT instructors. There is currently a server in place that is capable of housing the virtual platform and the report will show how to scale the server to meet the needs of the instructors. Requirements The IT instructors will also require virtualised GPU that can support at least twenty IT instructors that will be demonstrating STEM based teaching materials to others all over the local facilitating region. STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and as nationalstemcentre.org, (2014) states the Government has long identified STEM education as a major priority at both school and HE level. As a result, the system in place must compliment the quality of the IT instructors by allowing them to use a rich amount of media to convey the message they intend to tell. By using a VDI platform Instructors can collaborate across subjects, this would also allow desktops to move with the instructors, this would enhance the current solution that is in place, and use varied contexts to help young people relate school STEM subjects with their real-world experience. STEM based materials must be located on a consolidated, tiered storage platform and available to all VDI, Session based users. for this scenario, there are 20 staff who will be using virtual win7 machines, the minimum required memory is 2GB of RAM for the OS to function. Today most servers come with two or four cores per physical CPU, when assigning VM’s a CPU, 4 single CPU VM’s can be supported per CPU core. But this can vary from 1-2 cores up to 8-10 cores per CPU depending on the applicatio... ... middle of paper ... ...soft, 2012. MSDN. [Online] Available at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/aa374094(v=vs.85).aspx [Accessed 2nd may 2013]. nationalstemcentre.org, 2014. STEM in context. [Online] Available at: http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/stem-in-context/what-is-stem [Accessed May 2014]. Rouse, 2011. ISCI. [Online] Available at: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/iSCSI [Accessed January 2014]. Rouse, M., 2005. tiered storage. [Online] Available at: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/tiered-storage [Accessed May 2014]. Rouse, M., 2009. disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T). [Online] Available at: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/disk-to-disk-to-tape [Accessed Jan 2014]. Rouse, M., 2010. virtualization. [Online] Available at: http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/definition/virtualization [Accessed May 2014].

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