How many of you have Solidworks ePDM running in a VMWare environment?
In particular, running the Archive Server and the Database Server applications on separate VM hosted servers.
Are there any Solidworks recommendations on running in a VMWare environment?
Any Solidworks ePDM technical articles that are worth reading?
Hey Paul,
The big problem we usually see with SQL on VM's is disk saturation. If you were seeing poor performance on a physical server with internal disks then you could just pop into performance monitor and see disk saturation and that would be the end of it. In a VM that disk utilization may be coming from an entirely different VM because it's a shared disk. Long story short, performance problems are harder to diagnose on a VM, but if you know where to look and have a good virtualization team then you should be fine.
Hi Paul
We are succesfully running EPDM on seperate VMs and have some clients doing so as well.
The main considerations for the EPDM VMs are:
Hope this helps