Hi there,

Does anyone have any experience of Celcat in a virtualised server environment (any manufacturer), or delivery of the Celcat client through Microsoft's MDOP and SoftGrid?

We are currently only in the consideration phase of our project - licensing costs could stop such an environment being effective - but I would be interested to hear from anyone with any experience of Celcat in such an environment.

Regards,

Chris Hodgson, Keele University

Hi Chris,

We have moved Celcat server to a virtual server (VMWare).

The client has been moved to our new citrix farm, which are also virtual servers.

We haven't had any issues from a virtual point of view, I did have some trouble with the DCOM settings etc on the new (virtual) server, when I thought I understood it all pretty well beforehand, but it all works well.

Hi Chris,

We have moved Celcat server to a virtual server (VMWare).

The client has been moved to our new citrix farm, which are also virtual servers.

We haven't had any issues from a virtual point of view, I did have some trouble with the DCOM settings etc on the new (virtual) server, when I thought I understood it all pretty well beforehand, but it all works well.

Hi Gippstafe,

Thanks for the information - it may be very helpful to know that Timetabler works in such a configuration.

Anyone any experience with other vendors?

Regards,

Chris

Apologies for necro-posting but I didn't see any point in starting another thread on this same subject.

Gippstafe - You said you are running the server on VMWare, does this include the database or have you still got that sitting on bare metal? If it does include the database, how does it run in a virtualised environment, as I know the standard advice is not to do it if a database is going to be heavily used.

Cheers

Alan

Alan, I'm sure this isn't going to be useful now, but I was away travelling for 15 months and have now returned, so...

Yes, we run the DB on an MS-SQL server, also virtualised.  We have been running Oracle Db's on physical servers, with more and more databases running in our Ms-SQL environment.

Now events have forced us to start moving everything to MS-SQL environment, SQL 2008.  Things run ok, you just need to beef up your VMs.

For celcat in particular, it's not so heavy (for us) that the DB speed is an issue.

Cheers,

Dave

Thanks for the reply Dave, you lucky sod! Hope you enjoyed your travelling, FE has changed a bit in the last 15 months!

We actually still haven't made the transition to a fully virtualised environment although we are currently running the Celcat database off of a virtual server and it doesn't seem to suffer at all , however your reply is more relevant as it looks like we too will be ditching Oracle in favour of an all MS-SQL environment.

Thanks again for taking the time to reply.

Alan