Anyone using Xserve for 200+ clients?

[bschappel]

I’m curious of anyone out there has any experience using OS X Server as a plain AFP file server for 200-250 Mac clients. I’m just looking to find out how stable this is. We’re looking to hookup about 50TB of storage. The clients will be working on InDesign files from the server. We’re not looking at having the box provide much more than AFP services. All opinions are welcome. TIA.

[guitar24t]

I don’t have experience with that many mac clients, but I happen to believe that if you had an XServe with enough ram, processor and network bandwith, you could serve a much larger number of clients. I think that the stability of this scenario would be limited by the network speed. Gigabit ethernet wouldn’t hurt 😀
Robert

[georgebush]

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[Zeheeba]

I’m currently running a dual 2.8 quad intel xeon server with 306 connections, 206 of which are AFP. This count has been up into the 400s many times. The memory on the box is 4 gigs, and the main store it hosts is 5TB. As long as that 5TB doesn’t get to full, the server runs along fine. The processor load is always negligible.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Daniel

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