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Andy,

To use vmotion, the hosts in your ESX cluster must have shared storage,
we use EqualLogic iSCSI SANs. With the exception of Vantage, we have
been using ESX clusters for all production applications including
mission-critical apps like Oracle and Exchange for a year now.

Some of the magic that Vmotion does sounds too good to be true but it
works well. You can lose a server and your applications will be moved
instantly to another server with no interruption to your users. We
haven't done anything with storage vmotion.

Brad Feazell

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "amossrmt" <amoss@...> wrote:
>
>
> Brad,
>
> I'm glad to hear that ESX/ESXi is finding its way into other of
Epicor's
> customer's networks. I expect this will be a growing trend.
>
> We are currently running Vantage 6.10.542/Progress DB on a ESXi server
> and its been very good to us so far. We did a direct physical to
virtual
> migration using the VMware converter and have since enjoyed much
better
> performance. Granted, the host machine is more powerful than the old
> physical server, and we did a dump and load of the database
immediately
> after the migration so it is hard to know exactly how each factored
into
> our increase of performance.
>
> I'm curious, have you had successful tests of the failover and
resource
> management features (vmotion/storage vmotion/DRS)? Did you run into
any
> specific hang-ups while testing those features? Also, are you using a
> SAN for your storage? It was my understanding those features required
> some type of shared storage, such as a SAN. We hope to upgrade to the
> VMware Infrastructure suite some day in the future since ESXi is quite
> limited.
>
> Andy Moss
> Rosenboom Machine & Tool
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Has anyone had any experience running Epicor Vantage 8.03 on a VM
environment? We are currently using the MS-SQL database on one server
and the Progress/Vantage apps on another. We are looking at creating
a second Progress/Vantage server to split some load especially on
large orders of 500 lines or more (or 500+ releases which is not
uncommon for us). If anyone has any tips or experiences they would
like to share it would be appreciated. - Joe
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Joe,

We have run Vantage 8.03.404/SQL test servers on VMWare ESX for quite a
while. In a few weeks, we'll be moving our production environment to an
ESX cluster with two virtual app servers and a virtual SQL server. In
testing, the new virtual environment outperforms our physical
production environment which is a single server with apps and DB on one
box. Granted, the new cluster is built on three Dell R900 servers so it
should be fast but the physical production environment is no slouch
either.

The beauty of the VMWare ESX cluster is that we can loose a server with
no downtime and VMWare can automatically move VMs to the host with the
most available capacity on the fly. I have become a big believer in
VMWare ESX even for large apps that demand high performance and
especially for those that require high availability.

Brad Feazell
Dril-Quip, Inc.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "jmilton59" <jmilton@...> wrote:
>
> Has anyone had any experience running Epicor Vantage 8.03 on a VM
> environment? We are currently using the MS-SQL database on one server
> and the Progress/Vantage apps on another. We are looking at creating
> a second Progress/Vantage server to split some load especially on
> large orders of 500 lines or more (or 500+ releases which is not
> uncommon for us). If anyone has any tips or experiences they would
> like to share it would be appreciated. - Joe
>
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Brad,

I'm glad to hear that ESX/ESXi is finding its way into other of Epicor's
customer's networks. I expect this will be a growing trend.

We are currently running Vantage 6.10.542/Progress DB on a ESXi server
and its been very good to us so far. We did a direct physical to virtual
migration using the VMware converter and have since enjoyed much better
performance. Granted, the host machine is more powerful than the old
physical server, and we did a dump and load of the database immediately
after the migration so it is hard to know exactly how each factored into
our increase of performance.

I'm curious, have you had successful tests of the failover and resource
management features (vmotion/storage vmotion/DRS)? Did you run into any
specific hang-ups while testing those features? Also, are you using a
SAN for your storage? It was my understanding those features required
some type of shared storage, such as a SAN. We hope to upgrade to the
VMware Infrastructure suite some day in the future since ESXi is quite
limited.

Andy Moss
Rosenboom Machine & Tool


--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Brad Feazell" <Brad_feazell@...> wrote:
>
>
> Joe,
>
> We have run Vantage 8.03.404/SQL test servers on VMWare ESX for quite
a
> while. In a few weeks, we'll be moving our production environment to
an
> ESX cluster with two virtual app servers and a virtual SQL server. In
> testing, the new virtual environment outperforms our physical
> production environment which is a single server with apps and DB on
one
> box. Granted, the new cluster is built on three Dell R900 servers so
it
> should be fast but the physical production environment is no slouch
> either.
>
> The beauty of the VMWare ESX cluster is that we can loose a server
with
> no downtime and VMWare can automatically move VMs to the host with the
> most available capacity on the fly. I have become a big believer in
> VMWare ESX even for large apps that demand high performance and
> especially for those that require high availability.
>
> Brad Feazell
> Dril-Quip, Inc.