Upgrading JSS - feedback on Windows Server specs needed

[donmontalvo]

We need to upgrade the JSS server in one of the environments we support. We want to go with Windows so the server and OS can be managed by our Datacenter group (who have free access to the datacenter area).

There are 2000 Macs in this environment. We checked the system requirements/recommendations page:

http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=155

It lists RAN requirements as 1G minimum, 2G recommended. Hmmm...after reading some of the posts regarding Tomcat choking and needing a lot of RAM, sounds like the KB needs to be updated. ;) We want to make sure we order a server that will be able to take a beating without too much of a sweat...so how does this look?

IBM/HP rack mount server (whichever the Datacenter decides to go with) Windows Server 2008 32G RAM <-- so we can give Tomcat 24G 500G drives (RAID1 plus spare) Dual power Dual ethernet

We're OK on the distribution points, but I guess going down the Windows path we'll need to iron out distribution point sync'ing soon.

Thanks for any feedback from those of you running JSS on Windows.

Thanks,
Don

[tlarkin]

Those specs look great for only 2,000 clients. We have a 2 year old Xserve with 24 gigs of RAM (tomcat gets 16gigs) and 8,000 Mac clients and for the most part is works pretty well.

[#3]

How are you going to 16gigs for Tomcat? I've got 20Gigs of RAM and JSS
only allows me to go to 8GB for Tomcat. You editing configuration files
outside of JSS?

[tlarkin]

I am editing Tomcat's plist to set the max and min RAM usage in the XML property list itself. I posted the files to edit on a previous email on the list if you search the archives. If you can't find it let me know and I will send you the info.

-Tom

?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>