[ILUG] Thin client hardware expereience

[Ciaran Scolard]

I've used VMware's thin client solutions quite succesfully in the past.
TCO is quite a bit less than expected when you use a linux distro instead of
windows.

You can save quite a bit on both RAM and disk space using VMware's
"Transparent Page Sharing" and "Linked clones" features.
This helps to offset the cost of 15k SAS disks and ECC RAM.



On 10 December 2010 14:16, belgarath <belgarath at webangel.ie> wrote:

> Hi Denis,
>
> Most of thin client solution is quite costly, noticeably cheaper than
> the full hardware but not enough to make it worthwhile, the power
> consumption however is much lower. So if you are looking for cheap
> initial cost that won't help you to much (savings in range of 20-30%
> maybe) but if you are looking for ongoing operation it is much cheaper,
> as for the setup I would propose LTSP either standalone or one that is
> part of ubuntu/edubuntu setup (you can select it at install time and it
> is configured for you) which will allow all the computers to boot over
> network.
>
> Regards
> Paul
>
> On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 06:58 -0500, Denis Croombs wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Anyone have any experience of thin client hardware to connect to remote
> > services?
> > My experience of this type of hardware was some years ago and need up
> > todate low cost hardware to display basic pages like web pages from
> > servers based in remote sites.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Denis
> >
>
>
>
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