Sage / Terminal servers

Una · 30 Jun 2008 at 19:32

Hi, just had a quote for some new servers with the following spec:

Terminal Server:
HP ML370: Quad core xeon, 4gb ram, 2 * 146g hot swap sas drives, gbit lan..

Sage Server:
HP ML370: 2 * Quad core xeon, 16GB ram, 2 * 146g hot swap sas drives, gbit lan, HP SC11 controller.

Now the thing I am wondering is if the Sage server spec is too much of an overkill. Currently there are around 40 clients in one office (using sage software) and 10 clients in the other office (Remote access via Citrix). I personally don't know enough about Sage software to know if it warrants 16GB of ram and 2 quad core cpu's (I do realise MS SQL server is pretty resource hungry). If this is a bit of an overkill do you think one server would surfice to act as the terminal server and sage server?

Thanks!

morfmedia · 30 Jun 2008 at 19:40

I'd probably add more ram to the terminal server, depending on what OS you'll be running on it...

Una · 30 Jun 2008 at 19:45

morfmedia said:
I'd probably add more ram to the terminal server, depending on what OS you'll be running on it...

Is Citrix presentation server quite resource intensive? Well they quoted 2003 server standard edition.. I need to read up on 2008 server really see what the changes/benefits are.

Sp00n · 30 Jun 2008 at 19:50

I'd have the ram the other way round, 4 in the sage and 16 in the TS.

sidethink · 1 Jul 2008 at 12:47

Would agree with the above, the RAM would appear to be more useful in the TS/Citrix box.

Unless you are running some uber version of Sage, like Line 500 or something a dualprocessor, dual-core box with 2-4GB of RAM would be more than enough for a 50 user network. Still if you can get a bit of extra grunt for a little more money then thats all good.