{"id":760,"date":"2015-10-15T23:29:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T23:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/?p=760"},"modified":"2015-10-15T23:29:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T23:29:12","slug":"thin-clients-really-can-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/2015\/10\/15\/thin-clients-really-can-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Clients really can win!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[I will say from the onset of this article up until recently I would have called myself a thin client opponent, not a proponent.\u00a0 My early experiences with thin clients were not pleasant.\u00a0 Servers stretched to thin, poor performance, and inexpensive PC options made thin clients seem like a bad choice.\u00a0 But two years ago we purchased an Firefly <\/a>208R2 Server and L300 thin client lab for a hot, poorly powered room that changed my mind.
\nThis setup worked out so well we decided to look into configuring like systems inhouse.\u00a0 We used old Dell D600 laptops and set them up to autologon and connect to a 2008R2 remote desktop server.\u00a0\u00a0 This ue of low end, old machines connecting to a Dell Optiplex 780<\/a> seemed like a perfect match.\u00a0 We setup the system similar to the Firefly system with a VelociRaptor Hard Drive<\/a> and 16Gb or RAM.\u00a0 We found that 25 clients seemed to be the sweet spot, with 30 being a max for the system.
\nA great thing happened just as we were getting started, we got 210 free<\/strong> WYSE Z90D7<\/a> systems from the military DoDCFL program.\u00a0 These Windows 7 thin clients had 4Gb DDR3 RAM sticks and with a little experimenting were easily setup.\u00a0 We actually pulled the 4Gb sticks to use in the 780 systems and put 2Gb in them.\u00a0 Furthermore we purchased SSD drives for them.\u00a0 To say they rock is a vast understatement.\u00a0 We put a 780 in every few classrooms (they were a workstation as well as a the server) so that no server\u00a0 had more than 20-25 clients.
\nSystems logon in just a few seconds.\u00a0 Students only make 1 profile per server.\u00a0 I only need to update\u00a0 5 systems for the entire middle school…I could go on and on.\u00a0 The main takeaway is that making a thin client server is easy, and very responsive.\u00a0 Just like using VMWare on a server to host multiple servers, you can use 2008R2 to host multiple workstations.
\nIf you haven’t tried thin computing lately, I suggest you give it a try, you will not be displeased!]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<![CDATA[I will say from the onset of this article up until recently I would have called myself a thin client opponent, not a proponent.\u00a0 My early experiences with thin clients were not pleasant.\u00a0 Servers stretched to thin, poor performance, and inexpensive PC options made thin clients seem like a bad choice.\u00a0 But two years ago … Continue reading Thin Clients really can win!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtechteach","category-tech-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}