Remote sites

nusse · 06-17-2009, 03:37 PM

I have several remote sites that need to use the fucntions of our DS 6.9 server and coming across our WAN is more than painful for them.

What other options are recommended to better enhance the sites experience? Should I install remote servers and have them point back to the database at my main site?

Thanks for any advice.

deemacgee · 06-17-2009, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by nusse

I have several remote sites that need to use the fucntions of our DS 6.9 server and coming across our WAN is more than painful for them.

What other options are recommended to better enhance the sites experience? Should I install remote servers and have them point back to the database at my main site?

Thanks for any advice.

If the source of your WAN-jamming traffic is software or image deployments, you could look into an on-site package server (and possibly PXE server) to host your source files.

What sort of bandwidth are you working with, and how many clients are there at your remote site(s)?

nusse · 06-18-2009, 06:21 AM

Thanks for your response ... I have the images at each remote site and each site varies in bandwidth and remote users ranging from some sites that have 5 and a very slow connection to a couple hundred with about a 2 mb connection.

The slowness and poor performance is coming from the remote site admins that have to use the console and it is very painful across the WAN for all of them.

deemacgee · 06-18-2009, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by nusse

Thanks for your response ... I have the images at each remote site and each site varies in bandwidth and remote users ranging from some sites that have 5 and a very slow connection to a couple hundred with about a 2 mb connection.

The slowness and poor performance is coming from the remote site admins that have to use the console and it is very painful across the WAN for all of them.

If the Web Console's not functional enough, how about configuring Terminal Services on your server and having your admins run the Console directly on that server from within remote sessions?

nusse · 06-18-2009, 06:48 AM

Oddly enough I do have the console on a Terminal Server and it is slow for them as well.

Is my best option in this case to install a web console at each site?

deemacgee · 06-18-2009, 06:52 AM

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Oddly enough I do have the console on a Terminal Server and it is slow for them as well.

Is my best option in this case to install a web console at each site?

Oh wow, really? Even if you dial down the Terminal Client's bandwith requirements to minimum levels?

nusse · 06-18-2009, 06:53 AM

Yep .. our WAN traffic is very heavy.

deemacgee · 06-18-2009, 07:00 AM

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Yep .. our WAN traffic is very heavy.

The Web Console might help you, in that case, but I'm inclined to believe it could be a bit unstable if your link is already saturated.

What about configuring your WAN link to prioritise TS traffic?

nusse · 06-18-2009, 07:02 AM

I'm leery of the console as well .. but it has to be better than what they are currently doing with tthe console.

I would love to change the WAN prioroties but don't have access to do so.

deemacgee · 06-18-2009, 07:20 AM

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I'm leery of the console as well .. but it has to be better than what they are currently doing with tthe console.

You'd certainly hope so.

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I would love to change the WAN prioroties but don't have access to do so.

And a bandwidth upgrade is out of the question?

Not sure what else to suggest - there's a limit to how much performance can be wrung out of a set capacity (but that's often the major battle of IT).

If you can't...
a) add available bandwidth,
b) configure available bandwidth, or,
c) successfully limit the types traffic using said bandwidth
...your options may be few. Perhaps putting a DS at each site is the way to go?