System Requirements CCBoot Diskless

System Requirements

1.1   Server Requirements

CCBoot can run on Windows 2003, Windows 7 or Windows 2008.

We recommend Windows 2008 Server R2 Enterprise Edition 64bit with the latest service packs installed.

1.2   Network Requirements

For better performance, we recommend Gigabit network environment (Server & Client NICs and Switches).

1.3   Client Requirements

1)     Windows XP, Windows 2003, Vista (SP1 required), Windows 7 or Windows 2008.

2)     PXE 2.x compliant network adapter 1Gbps. For most up-to-date main board, the onboard NIC can support PXE 2.x.

3)     We recommend using Realtek and Intel 1000M series NIC. We NOT recommend using Nvida NIC.

4)     We recommend the client use 2G RAM.

1.4  Recommended Server Hardware

1)     CPU: Intel or AMD Processor 4 Core or more

2)     Motherboard: Server motherboard that support 8GB up of RAM, 6 or more SATA Ports.

3)     RAM: 8GB DDR3 or more.

4)     Hard Disk:
One SATA HDD use for Server OS (C:\) and Image Disk(D:\); Two SATA HDD setup on Raid0 use for Game Disk. We recommend using Win2008 disk manager to setup RAID instead of hardware RAID in BIOS. We recommend open ACHI mode of SATA in BIOS for better disk write performance.

5)     One SSD for SSD Cache.

6)     Two SATA/SAS/SSD HDD use for client write-back disk. We NOT recommend use RAID for write-back disk.

7)     For 25 - 30 client PCs, server should have 8G DDR3 RAM.

8)     For 30 - 70 client PCs, server should have 16G DDR3 RAM.

9)     For 70 - 100 client PCs, server should have 32G DDR3.

10)   For 100+ client PCs, we recommend to use 2 or more Server with load balance.

11)   Network: 1000Mb Ethernet or 2 * 1000 Mb Ethernet team network. We recommend Intel 1000M Series.

1.5  Recommended Configuration for 70 Clients

Configuration on server

1)     CPU Intel(R) 4-core processors

2)     Kingston RAM: 16G DDR3

3)     Set STAT ports as ACHI mode.

4)     A SATA hard disk with 150G, please spilt it to two partitions, then install windows in C:\, also need to install CCBoot and save image in D:\.

5)     Use two SATA hard disk as game disk, each of them is 500G and setup Raid0 in disk manager, the drive is E:\.

6)     Use two SATA hard disks as write-back disk, each of them is 500G, their drive is I:\ and j:\ respectively. We DONOT recommend setup Raid0 for Write-back disk.

7)     An Intel SSD disk with 80G is used for game SSD caching and its drive is S:\.

8)     Please use Intel(R) PRO/1000EB network card as server network card, and disable flow control in NIC properties. Uninstall QoS service in network properties.

9)     Cache Allocation

	Disk     RAM Cache	SSD Cache
Image	1024M	0M
Game	8096M	71680M

10)   If you haven't install SuperCache on the server, please click to select "Use the System Cache as Write-back Cache" in settings for CCBoot server.

11)   Fill 512M in "Enable Client Cache" box on client properties.

Source : Manual CCBoot