Does anyone run Kinetic on-premises in a cluster? A while ago we were strongly discouraged from running Epicor VMs in a cluster by an Epicor employee. We’re reconsidering that because of the benefits of clustering and because we’re not sure how Epicor could be adversely impacted by a cluster since it won’t even be “aware” it is in one. Any shared experiences or expertise would be appreciated.
Depends on how many users you have. And where Epicor is relative to your users. Do you have a large number of uses across multiple sites? Or is everything in one place with only a few users?
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I heard you can even run it in a Linux container 
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We are licensed for something like 35 full users and 15 data collection. We have multiple sites but haven’t seen any negative impact from running as is on a traditional host. Is there something negative about increasing user count and clustering you are aware of?
How many users are you talking? I don’t see the need and we’re 70 Full 20 Data Collection.
Edit should of read the whole thread 
I wouldn’t setup clustering for that number of users. You won’t see much benefit and the overhead to maintain it wouldn’t be worth it.
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35 full / 15 data. That will increase in the future but not significantly.
And to clarify, we’re not necessarily looking for the performance improvements of a cluster so much as the ability to avoid downtime by running Epicor in a cluster and migrating its VMs off a node that is about to experience downtime as a result of maintenance or something else.
Also, we already have a cluster, Epicor just is not on it yet.
Correct me if I’m misunderstanding here, but when you refer to “cluster” are talking about a Virtualization Cluster (VMware ,Hyper-V or whatever else)? If so, we’ve been running Epicor on-prem for years as virtualized machines and have not seen any obvious or negative impact that is a direct result of the software running on a VM version a physical server. I’m making several assumptions that your virtualized cluster meets the requirements in the hardware sizing guide (which does include a virtualized deployment option).
I’ve no idea about on-prem epicor setup but assume you mean Win server failover cluster service or the like. If so, it should be transparent to nodes as you said but if it were me, I’d be darn sure the software provider supports the configuration.
I once was subcontracted to setup sql server database mirroring for a big corp. middle man knew how to land deals but not much about the tech and held the relationship close to the point of I just do what I’m told. Anyway, job done, on time on budget. demonstrated failover successfully. My scope is complete and delivered.
thats when the customer finds out their client software doesn’t support failover partner. They pay the bill, guy blames me and skips town, I get stiffed. Oh well.
Anyway that was when failover had a client dependency. WSFC was later developed to make it transparent AFAIK but do your homework.