ADNM Administrator’s Guide says that AMS can be installed in a machine running Windows XP.
Microsoft KB article 314882 says:
For Windows XP Professional, the maximum number of other computers that are permitted to simultaneously connect over the network is ten. This limit includes all transports and resource sharing protocols combined.
Will this limit be a problem in communication between AMS and their clients?
We will have about 600 clients connected to the AMS server. If we use second-level mirrors to help distribute updates, will Windows XP still be sufficient?
should be enough, its more the machine itself that needs to be able the ammount of traffic to process then the OS.
but keep in mind that XP is a workstation OS, not a server OS. The server OS is optimised for tasks like this, XP is not optimised for it.