Network / Bandwidth bottleneck
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:10 pm
Hi all,
Hope there are some gurus out there who can provide some advice on this.
At the moment we are in a centralised LAN running @10Mbps, where PCs access the DS sever and DB sever locally. There are appoximately 250+ PCs in this LAN, but only about 20+ access the App/DB servers. <location A>
We are planning to move the DS and DB servers to another location 10km away, which will be part of another LAN, @100Mbps <location B>
We have another central networking hub in another location which handles the WAN connections, traffic and monitoring <location X>
From A to X the WAN link is 10Mb
From X to B the WAN link is 100Mb
So my question is: will we (@ location A) experience a significant bandwidth bottleneck with this relocation? Especially on trying to get the data across from the DS/DB servers?
i.e.
A <-------------------- X <--------------------- B
10Mbps 100Mbps
We have done some tests by moving a PC to location B and connect to the DS/DB servers at location A...performance is similar to the LAN enviroment, which would make sense because we can only get a max. throughput of 10Mbps.
A --------------------> X ---------------------> B
10Mbps 100Mbps
If you provide any help/advice that would be much appreciated. I know there is a few options for us already, such as creating a replica DS/DB environment at B, TS or Citrix...but I was wondering if there is anyone out there who had a similar scenario?
Cheers
Ray
Hope there are some gurus out there who can provide some advice on this.
At the moment we are in a centralised LAN running @10Mbps, where PCs access the DS sever and DB sever locally. There are appoximately 250+ PCs in this LAN, but only about 20+ access the App/DB servers. <location A>
We are planning to move the DS and DB servers to another location 10km away, which will be part of another LAN, @100Mbps <location B>
We have another central networking hub in another location which handles the WAN connections, traffic and monitoring <location X>
From A to X the WAN link is 10Mb
From X to B the WAN link is 100Mb
So my question is: will we (@ location A) experience a significant bandwidth bottleneck with this relocation? Especially on trying to get the data across from the DS/DB servers?
i.e.
A <-------------------- X <--------------------- B
10Mbps 100Mbps
We have done some tests by moving a PC to location B and connect to the DS/DB servers at location A...performance is similar to the LAN enviroment, which would make sense because we can only get a max. throughput of 10Mbps.
A --------------------> X ---------------------> B
10Mbps 100Mbps
If you provide any help/advice that would be much appreciated. I know there is a few options for us already, such as creating a replica DS/DB environment at B, TS or Citrix...but I was wondering if there is anyone out there who had a similar scenario?
Cheers
Ray