Remote Desktop Services server capacities/best practices...

[R.O.S.S.I]

Hi all, just wondering if there are any common best practices when it comes to RDS server capacities etc?

At the moment I have an RDS server set up for users at 3 of our sites to connect back to via RDP, it also acts as an RD Gateway so 1 or 2 users can connect in remotely via the web.

The server regularly has about 15 concurrent users connected at any one time but it very rarely goes much above that. Looking at resource monitor the CPU isn't being taxed at all on the server during these times, and RAM utilization very rarely goes about 50% (8GB allocated).

I'm just wondering are there any recommended limits to adhere to with this sort of thing? Should I be looking at creating a server farm for my users? Or can I just plough on with it as is?

 

[Xez]

You should be fine for a while, I've always found the hard disks are the limiting after 32bit limitation. Make sure you have some good 15k SAS disks in a mirrored raid. One of my clients has a single virtual host running one 32bit TS and one 64bit TS on different mirrored volumes and it copes fine. The 64bit server handles 35 users on a daily basis with no slow downs. The 32bit handles less now but at 25 users it was getting slow due to no free memory.

 

[R.O.S.S.I]

Ah that's good to know then! Unless we massively expand I should be OK for the forseeable future!