Just wondering if anyone has deployed Epicor 10 on a Dell EMC VxRail appliance? We currently have Epicor 10 deployed on a virtual machine but are considering moving it to a physical machine. Looking at options, the VxRail came up and we may look at keeping the VM but moving it to a VxRail. I’m looking for real world feedback on performance if anyone has gone this deployment route.
TIA,
Mike
I guess we’d need to know which series you’re planning on moving too. If you’re talking about the P series it would be fine depending on the amount of users and so on. VMWare doesn’t have the performance with Microsoft Server 2012 like Hyper-V does, so that could be a concern.
You could run your config by us and we’d give our opinion. VxRail comes in many flavors and countless configs. For instance using (4) intel E7 8870 processors, 225K RAM, 1.2TB Raid 10 SSD.
Let us know,
Jonathan
Hey Mike, Hate to respond with a question, but if you don’t mind… Did you encounter significant problems and/or performance issues running E10 on Vmware? I’m planning to deploy on VM as well, and I’d really appreciate some feedback on what you’ve experienced.
We’re looking at the E Series with SSD drives. At this point we’re in the initial discussion stage.
Some of our issues with VMware are self-inflicted. We attempted to run everything on a single VM (SQL, AppServer, Report server all on the same vm). We only have 46 users so thought we might be able to get away with this config. Also, our SAN data access time is about double what Epicor recommends. Even so, our performance isn’t terrible, but definitely not where we would like it to be. We are looking at a physical SQL server but since our VMware infrastructure is about 5 years old, we are also considering doing an infrastructure refresh and seeing if we can optimize it to run Epicor virtualized.
Thanks for that information Mike. There are a number of interesting posts around E10 and virtualization, as I discovered after responding to your message. Perhaps you’ve also discovered this interesting thread…
We are working on an E9 to E10 upgrade and we have been and will still be using VMware. We are implementing E10 on new hardware. We are running the VMWare hosts on Cisco UCS blade servers (Intel Xeon CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.4Ghz, 2 sockets w/ 14 cores per socket) connected to a NetApp all-flash SAN. We have a 10 gigabit network backbone between the servers and SAN. We are supporting about 100 total users (40 full and 60 data collection) (we are licensed for 27 full and 29 data collection active users). With E9 we had separate servers: 3 app servers, 1 SQL database server, 1 tools server. With E10 we decided to simplify things and put it all on one server. We have been quite happy with the performance of E10 on this setup. We have actually also moved our E9 servers to this new hardware and even with E9 and E10 on the same hardware (different servers) we have seen a pretty good performance improvement in E10 compare to E9.
Greg Bakker
That’s really great information Greg, thanks!
We’re a 10-user shop (w/3 additional CRM and 3 DC users), so we’ll be opting for a config similar in topology, but less horsepower and a lot fewer digits in the price. Definitely going the SAN route for all VMs, for backup and disaster recovery. With that speedy SAN, you ARE storing EVERYTHING on the SAN. Yes?
@Andrew, Yes we are storing everything on the SAN.