[Server-devel] We need: examples of XS hardware in use --

[Hamilton Chua]

Hello Martin,

Happy New Year !

We run our XS inside virtual machines. I have XS inside virtualbox on my
Lenovo T61 laptop 

Santa Rosa Core 2 DUO 2.0 Ghz 
4GB DDR2
120GB HDD

while Solutiongrove runs a couple of XS installations inside VMWare ESXi
(http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/).

I'll try to get the hardware info where ESXi is installed from our
service provider.

ESXi has these fancy charts and graphs on usage and stuff about the
virtual machines running, I'll see if it's possible to extract that info
for you. Hopefully that data is still available.

Best,

Hamilton



On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:43 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> List, David, Reuben,
> 
> We are getting increasing enquiries "what hardware can we use for an
> XS in a school with N laptops?", and frankly the
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Recommended_Hardware is a bit slim on
> concrete recommendations.
> 
> So I need your help -- I've added some info in the "hardware known to
> work" section, but I'd like David to put more info on the exact model
> of MSI Wind he's using, additional hardware, number of laptops
> supported, and any extra notes.
> 
> Similarly, Reuben, I need more info on what hw the OLPCCorps crowd is using.
> 
> And anyone else that's running an XS (hi Hamilton!)... we need your hw
> profile and your numbers.
> 
> Additionally, I've added a 'server sizing' section. It'll be great to
> get corroboration that the CPU/RAM to number of users match what you
> are using in the field, and whether your server gets in trouble when
> usage spikes.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> m