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