10.6. System Requirements
System requirements to support Remote Desktop Server vary depending on a number of factors. Generally, the server resources that become taxed or exhausted are memory, processing, graphics, network, and storage. A user workload that presents a light resource footprint, Notepad, for example, on a server will allow more users to concurrently share that server. Resource-intensive applications such as CAD/CAM or Java-based applications weigh more heavily on a server and therefore allow far fewer concurrent users.
10.6.1. Memory
In most cases, RAM is the resource that presents the first bottleneck to be addressed in an RDS environment. The good news is that memory is relatively inexpensive. More good news is that since 2005, ...
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