Running PDM Workgroup Vault, data is in excess of 120 GB, is
it necessary to have validate vault option enabled. As we are now
it takes us 5 hours to restart vault. We think it has to do with
the validate vault option being turned on.
Let me re-phrase that, IS it good practice to have the option enabled on a workgroup vault that is in excess of 120 GB?
Let me re-phrase that, IS it good practice to have the option enabled on a workgroup vault that is in excess of 120 GB?
David - 10 mins ? Are you positive validation is turned on?
We are restarting at least once a week, currently vault data is stored on our NAS. Over the years our soldiworks user base has increased from 5-10 to currently over 20(at times) . When we only had 5-10 users at once we did not experience the vault service not responding. We are looking for justification to migrate PDM and vault data to a dedicated server or at least migrate the data to the SAN and share it from there, my predecessors decided that PDM didn't require dedicated hardware and Now PDM resides on a production server that serves many other applications as well as being a file server, so you can see what a mess we are in. With an increase in demand for solidworks we are trying to reevaluate that stance.
You say you rarely have to restart the service? May I ask do you store your vault data on the same production server?
one thing is don't "share" the vault location, you don't need to do a windows share to the vault, the client and vault service take care of that. You don't want anyone browsing the vault through windows. That could be one of your issues maybe?
You should be able to save the vault log from the admin tool in PDMWorks WorkGroup. It is just a text file. Open up the text file and you can see all the activity. Recorded is the start and stop times for vault validation.
Our vault now contains 33,000 total indexed documents (as reported on the search tab in the admin tool). We have 12,800 unique document names in the vault (average about roughly 2.58 revisions per unique document). Our validate vault operation takes a little over 2 minutes. I recall it use to take over 10 minutes, but that was before the vault was moved to newer hardware. Can't tell you what hardware we are operating on now, but it must have made a huge difference.