We have a third party IT Company that helps us with our hardware and some other small things. Anyway, we are needing to upgrade our server hardware next year and I was asked if E10 would do well in a virtual environment.
The thought process is that it will be easier to migrate over. Which brings up another question , if we do not virtualize, which I do not want to, then how easy is ti to migrate everything over? This part I have not done before so it would be a new experience for me.
Are you referring to hosting epicor servers in vm’s? If so yes that is a very typical way of doing it.
Yes, that is what I am referring too. Is there any documentation on it?
Virtualization is not only supported but encouraged that is the way the world runs today.
There is no downside, only upside, quick backup and restore,disaster recovery, mitigation, better hardware utilization etc. Now a days there is virtually (no pun intended) no performance penalty with the newer Bare-metal installs of VMware and or Hyper-V
if we do not virtualize, which I do not want to
I would suggest you strongly consider and change your stance, virtualization is wonderful for Epicor and everything else. There are few if any large corporations and IT Departments that do no virtualize.
Checkout this Epicor White Paper on hardware sizing and virtualization
https://epicweb.epicor.com/resources/MRCCustomers/Epicor-ERP-Hardware-Sizing-Guide-WP-ENS.pdf
We run Epicor for 41 plants in the US and 7 other countries, all virtualized and colloc across 8 APPServers and 2 DB Servers
All of Epicor’s cloud services from single tenant hosted to Public Cloud SaaS are run on virtualization. Many companies, including Epicor, do not manage their own hardware.
I will read the document and consider what everyone is saying. This is one reason I enjoy asking questions and stating my thoughts is to get challenging thoughts back. It is much appreciated!
I also was wary of going virtual, but 7 years later I would not go back. We are VMWare and there is a P2V - Physical to Virtual Converter that I used to take 22 servers and clone them to the environment. I assume Hyper-V would have something similar.
Just this week I cloned two machines to make a development SQL server for an inhouse app and a 10.2.400 server for testing in a few hours.