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SMS SERVER HARDWARE SPECS?
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There is no way to answer that question without having more information.
What do you plan to do with SMS? MS update packaging, file collection, extensive inventorying, application packaging, custom inventorying etc.? Once you've determined that, how many clients will you be servicing?
-If it ain't broke, break it and make it better.
What do you plan to do with SMS? MS update packaging, file collection, extensive inventorying, application packaging, custom inventorying etc.? Once you've determined that, how many clients will you be servicing?
-If it ain't broke, break it and make it better.
Mich is right...the question you are asking is way to complex to give "general" type answers.
As far as the number of servers you will need greatly depends on the number of physical sites that you wish to manage. If you have three sites, you can estimate that it will take a minimum of three servers.
As far as number of clients per server, a normal newer style server will probably be OK (1.8Ghz with 1 to 2GB of RAM). I would add tons of fault tolerance to the servers though. SMS 2003 can not be clustered (SQL can, and Management points can) but you still have a relative single point of failure. Have good back up and recovery plans in place to protect yourself as much as you can. Luckily SMS 2003 provides some very good recovery tools.
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Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003
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As far as the number of servers you will need greatly depends on the number of physical sites that you wish to manage. If you have three sites, you can estimate that it will take a minimum of three servers.
As far as number of clients per server, a normal newer style server will probably be OK (1.8Ghz with 1 to 2GB of RAM). I would add tons of fault tolerance to the servers though. SMS 2003 can not be clustered (SQL can, and Management points can) but you still have a relative single point of failure. Have good back up and recovery plans in place to protect yourself as much as you can. Luckily SMS 2003 provides some very good recovery tools.
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Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003
If your company is in need of experts to examine technical problems/solutions, please check out (Sales@njcomputernetworks.com)
You should take a look at this site:
This is a MS SMS guys blog, great stuff!!! covers some of this question along with some other very good info.
Tim B
This is a MS SMS guys blog, great stuff!!! covers some of this question along with some other very good info.
Tim B
(Great link tbrennans)
Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003
If your company is in need of experts to examine technical problems/solutions, please check out (Sales@njcomputernetworks.com)
Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003
If your company is in need of experts to examine technical problems/solutions, please check out (Sales@njcomputernetworks.com)
Speaking of his blog, one of them is about a tool he was working on at MS, called the SMS 2003 capacity planner.
Overview
The Microsoft® Systems Management Server 2003 Capacity Planner is a tool that helps consultants, SMS administrators, and IT professionals perform scenario analysis on their existing and proposed SMS 2003 hierarchy. The Capacity Planner Tool User Guide describes how to use the Capacity Planner tool. The Capacity Planner tool analyzes the input you provide and suggests SMS site topology configurations and corresponding hardware configurations for site servers and site systems.
This was released today @:
Tim B
Overview
The Microsoft® Systems Management Server 2003 Capacity Planner is a tool that helps consultants, SMS administrators, and IT professionals perform scenario analysis on their existing and proposed SMS 2003 hierarchy. The Capacity Planner Tool User Guide describes how to use the Capacity Planner tool. The Capacity Planner tool analyzes the input you provide and suggests SMS site topology configurations and corresponding hardware configurations for site servers and site systems.
This was released today @:
Tim B
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