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Wow, I bet that wasn't cheap - or are Dells a lot cheaper in the USA?

We have two servers and two identical backup servers.

Ours are similar but we onlt have 10GB RAM but we find that is it never anywhere near consumed.

The biggest problem we have is the office PCs. We have had to upgrade all of them to much higher spec machines than our legacy system needed.

Without a doubt, if you want Epicor or Vantage to run well you have to spend much much more on hardware than other legacy systems we have used.

With our main servers we take a full backup every night then restore only part of it next day on our backup servers which are in a different building on a different network with the same IP address and name. In the event of the main server failing we can switch a wire (both buildings have a hard wire link which is disconnected during normal operation) and be back up and running with data that is a maximum of 8 working hours out of date.

We also take the tape off-site in the event of the whole building burning down. The tape can rebuild all of our servers using IDR on to any new servers in the event of a total disaster.




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From: Chad Jensen <chadjensen@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 15 December, 2009 18:08:04
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

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We have two servers they are dell power edge 2950 dual quad core 3.0 ghz
32gb memory running ESX w/ high availability. Everything like the vm's
are stored on a MD3000i san array which has 4 300GB 15K RPM
Serial-Attach SCSI 3Gbps hard drives in a raid 5. Everything is stored
on the san array and has 1gig connectivity. I have a test server running
Epicor 9 and it does not have performance issues but I have not put a
load of 35 users on the system, which concerns Epicor and they make you
sign a waiver to move forward with the install.

Thanks,
Chad

From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf
Of Charlie Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:08 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

Is everything on the same drive set. (VM OS and VMs themselves?)

~Charlie

_____

From: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> ] On
Behalf Of
Chad Jensen
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:33 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

We are currently going though the upgrade process from 6.1 to 9 and we
are
stuck on our servers having Raid 5 which they do not support any
recommendations? We are in a virtual environment so not a easy feat
making
one into a Raid 10.

Thanks,
Chad

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
[mailto:vantage@ yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com] On
Behalf Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:17 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

We went form V8 to E9.

Fortunately our servers were powerful enough to handle E9 so we had no
cost
there.

We benefitted because a number of bugs in Vantage were fixed in E9.

The BAQ designer is a lot easier but has a number of bugs still.

E9 is definately slower than V8 which is worth considering.

If I were you I would wait until 9.05 before upgrading because a lot is
meant to be fixed by then.

The financials side of things leaves a lot to be desired (certainly in
503B
anyway).

____________ _________ _________ __
From: bmseekins <bmseekins@yahoo. <mailto:bmseekins% 40yahoo.com> com
<mailto:bmseekins% 40yahoo.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
<mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Tue, 8 December, 2009 23:45:22
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case
to go
from Epicor 9 form 8.03?

We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and
cost
of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.

The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case
for
the upgrade.

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Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case to go from Epicor 9 form 8.03?

We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and cost of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.

The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case for the upgrade.
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We went form V8 to E9.

Fortunately our servers were powerful enough to handle E9 so we had no cost there.

We benefitted because a number of bugs in Vantage were fixed in E9.

The BAQ designer is a lot easier but has a number of bugs still.

E9 is definately slower than V8 which is worth considering.

If I were you I would wait until 9.05 before upgrading because a lot is meant to be fixed by then.

The financials side of things leaves a lot to be desired (certainly in 503B anyway).




________________________________
From: bmseekins <bmseekins@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 8 December, 2009 23:45:22
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

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Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case to go from Epicor 9 form 8.03?

We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and cost of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.

The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case for the upgrade.







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We are currently going though the upgrade process from 6.1 to 9 and we are stuck on our servers having Raid 5 which they do not support any recommendations? We are in a virtual environment so not a easy feat making one into a Raid 10.

Thanks,
Chad



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:17 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade





We went form V8 to E9.

Fortunately our servers were powerful enough to handle E9 so we had no cost there.

We benefitted because a number of bugs in Vantage were fixed in E9.

The BAQ designer is a lot easier but has a number of bugs still.

E9 is definately slower than V8 which is worth considering.

If I were you I would wait until 9.05 before upgrading because a lot is meant to be fixed by then.

The financials side of things leaves a lot to be desired (certainly in 503B anyway).

________________________________
From: bmseekins <bmseekins@... <mailto:bmseekins%40yahoo.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, 8 December, 2009 23:45:22
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade


Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case to go from Epicor 9 form 8.03?

We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and cost of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.

The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case for the upgrade.

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What spec are your server because ours are high end and the system isnt the fastest? We also had to upgrade all of our office pcs. What spec are your typical office PCs?

We have RAID 1, RAID 10 and RAID 10 I think on 8 drives. Not really sure about Raid.




________________________________
From: Chad Jensen <chadjensen@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 15 December, 2009 15:33:12
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

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We are currently going though the upgrade process from 6.1 to 9 and we are stuck on our servers having Raid 5 which they do not support any recommendations? We are in a virtual environment so not a easy feat making one into a Raid 10.

Thanks,
Chad



From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:17 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade





We went form V8 to E9.

Fortunately our servers were powerful enough to handle E9 so we had no cost there.

We benefitted because a number of bugs in Vantage were fixed in E9.

The BAQ designer is a lot easier but has a number of bugs still.

E9 is definately slower than V8 which is worth considering.

If I were you I would wait until 9.05 before upgrading because a lot is meant to be fixed by then.

The financials side of things leaves a lot to be desired (certainly in 503B anyway).

____________ _________ _________ __
From: bmseekins <bmseekins@yahoo. com <mailto:bmseekins% 40yahoo.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Tue, 8 December, 2009 23:45:22
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade


Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case to go from Epicor 9 form 8.03?

We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and cost of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.

The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case for the upgrade.

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Is everything on the same drive set. (VM OS and VMs themselves?)



~Charlie

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Chad Jensen
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:33 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade





We are currently going though the upgrade process from 6.1 to 9 and we are
stuck on our servers having Raid 5 which they do not support any
recommendations? We are in a virtual environment so not a easy feat making
one into a Raid 10.

Thanks,
Chad



From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:17 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade





We went form V8 to E9.

Fortunately our servers were powerful enough to handle E9 so we had no cost
there.

We benefitted because a number of bugs in Vantage were fixed in E9.

The BAQ designer is a lot easier but has a number of bugs still.

E9 is definately slower than V8 which is worth considering.

If I were you I would wait until 9.05 before upgrading because a lot is
meant to be fixed by then.

The financials side of things leaves a lot to be desired (certainly in 503B
anyway).

________________________________
From: bmseekins <bmseekins@yahoo. <mailto:bmseekins%40yahoo.com> com
<mailto:bmseekins%40yahoo.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, 8 December, 2009 23:45:22
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade


Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case to go
from Epicor 9 form 8.03?

We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and cost
of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.

The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case for
the upgrade.

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Can I just ask why people use VMWare for their main server environment?




________________________________
From: Charlie Wilson <foamdesigncsw@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 15 December, 2009 16:07:41
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

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Is everything on the same drive set. (VM OS and VMs themselves?)

~Charlie

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From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf Of
Chad Jensen
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:33 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

We are currently going though the upgrade process from 6.1 to 9 and we are
stuck on our servers having Raid 5 which they do not support any
recommendations? We are in a virtual environment so not a easy feat making
one into a Raid 10.

Thanks,
Chad

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
[mailto:vantage@ yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com] On
Behalf Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:17 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

We went form V8 to E9.

Fortunately our servers were powerful enough to handle E9 so we had no cost
there.

We benefitted because a number of bugs in Vantage were fixed in E9.

The BAQ designer is a lot easier but has a number of bugs still.

E9 is definately slower than V8 which is worth considering.

If I were you I would wait until 9.05 before upgrading because a lot is
meant to be fixed by then.

The financials side of things leaves a lot to be desired (certainly in 503B
anyway).

____________ _________ _________ __
From: bmseekins <bmseekins@yahoo. <mailto:bmseekins% 40yahoo.com> com
<mailto:bmseekins% 40yahoo.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
<mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Tue, 8 December, 2009 23:45:22
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case to go
from Epicor 9 form 8.03?

We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and cost
of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.

The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case for
the upgrade.

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Cuz it makes testing much easier and many times a physical server sits ideal
for a majority of the time so why not share resources.



~Charlie

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Chris Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:34 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade





Can I just ask why people use VMWare for their main server environment?

________________________________
From: Charlie Wilson <foamdesigncsw@ <mailto:foamdesigncsw%40yahoo.com>
yahoo.com>
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Sent: Tue, 15 December, 2009 16:07:41
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade


Is everything on the same drive set. (VM OS and VMs themselves?)

~Charlie

_____

From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf
Of
Chad Jensen
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:33 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

We are currently going though the upgrade process from 6.1 to 9 and we are
stuck on our servers having Raid 5 which they do not support any
recommendations? We are in a virtual environment so not a easy feat making
one into a Raid 10.

Thanks,
Chad

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
[mailto:vantage@ yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com] On
Behalf Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:17 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

We went form V8 to E9.

Fortunately our servers were powerful enough to handle E9 so we had no cost
there.

We benefitted because a number of bugs in Vantage were fixed in E9.

The BAQ designer is a lot easier but has a number of bugs still.

E9 is definately slower than V8 which is worth considering.

If I were you I would wait until 9.05 before upgrading because a lot is
meant to be fixed by then.

The financials side of things leaves a lot to be desired (certainly in 503B
anyway).

____________ _________ _________ __
From: bmseekins <bmseekins@yahoo. <mailto:bmseekins% 40yahoo.com> com
<mailto:bmseekins% 40yahoo.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
<mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Tue, 8 December, 2009 23:45:22
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case to go
from Epicor 9 form 8.03?

We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and cost
of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.

The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case for
the upgrade.

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Something like VMWare ESX 4 implemented with a good backend storage device (like a SAN in our case) offers many many benefits over a dedicated device (if you can afford it).

Our first priority was being able to backup and restore to different pieces of hardware should we need to. This isn't as big of an issue for something like Epicor because it's pretty easy to install a new server and restore the database backup, but other servers like Exchange and domains we've had issues restoring to different hardware because of underlying drivers/raid controllers/cpu changes when the server hw changes.

But our virtual environment also gives us the ability to move servers between head servers while we take one down for maintenance (or auto move them if a head server is having issues).

We can allocate more memory or cpu towards a virtual server on the fly, we can allocate additional disk space to a server on the fly as well.

We can replicate virtual server snapshots to remote sites for disaster recovery on the fly.

It all works well if you have a decent backend storage solution, if you try to do this with a small number of hard drives in a small dedicated raid solution you'll limit your performance and the number of virtual machines you can run without killing overall performance.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Chris Thompson <chriselectrix@...> wrote:
>
> Can I just ask why people use VMWare for their main server environment?
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Charlie Wilson <foamdesigncsw@...>
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, 15 December, 2009 16:07:41
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade
>
> ÂÂ
> Is everything on the same drive set. (VM OS and VMs themselves?)
>
> ~Charlie
>
> _____
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf Of
> Chad Jensen
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:33 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade
>
> We are currently going though the upgrade process from 6.1 to 9 and we are
> stuck on our servers having Raid 5 which they do not support any
> recommendations? We are in a virtual environment so not a easy feat making
> one into a Raid 10.
>
> Thanks,
> Chad
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
> [mailto:vantage@ yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com] On
> Behalf Of Chris Thompson
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:17 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
> Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade
>
> We went form V8 to E9.
>
> Fortunately our servers were powerful enough to handle E9 so we had no cost
> there.
>
> We benefitted because a number of bugs in Vantage were fixed in E9.
>
> The BAQ designer is a lot easier but has a number of bugs still.
>
> E9 is definately slower than V8 which is worth considering.
>
> If I were you I would wait until 9.05 before upgrading because a lot is
> meant to be fixed by then.
>
> The financials side of things leaves a lot to be desired (certainly in 503B
> anyway).
>
> ____________ _________ _________ __
> From: bmseekins <bmseekins@yahoo. <mailto:bmseekins% 40yahoo.com> com
> <mailto:bmseekins% 40yahoo.com> >
> To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
> <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
> Sent: Tue, 8 December, 2009 23:45:22
> Subject: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade
>
> Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case to go
> from Epicor 9 form 8.03?
>
> We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and cost
> of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.
>
> The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case for
> the upgrade.
>
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>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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We have two servers they are dell power edge 2950 dual quad core 3.0 ghz
32gb memory running ESX w/ high availability. Everything like the vm's
are stored on a MD3000i san array which has 4 300GB 15K RPM
Serial-Attach SCSI 3Gbps hard drives in a raid 5. Everything is stored
on the san array and has 1gig connectivity. I have a test server running
Epicor 9 and it does not have performance issues but I have not put a
load of 35 users on the system, which concerns Epicor and they make you
sign a waiver to move forward with the install.



Thanks,
Chad



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Charlie Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:08 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade





Is everything on the same drive set. (VM OS and VMs themselves?)

~Charlie

_____

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of
Chad Jensen
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:33 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

We are currently going though the upgrade process from 6.1 to 9 and we
are
stuck on our servers having Raid 5 which they do not support any
recommendations? We are in a virtual environment so not a easy feat
making
one into a Raid 10.

Thanks,
Chad

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:17 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

We went form V8 to E9.

Fortunately our servers were powerful enough to handle E9 so we had no
cost
there.

We benefitted because a number of bugs in Vantage were fixed in E9.

The BAQ designer is a lot easier but has a number of bugs still.

E9 is definately slower than V8 which is worth considering.

If I were you I would wait until 9.05 before upgrading because a lot is
meant to be fixed by then.

The financials side of things leaves a lot to be desired (certainly in
503B
anyway).

________________________________
From: bmseekins <bmseekins@yahoo. <mailto:bmseekins%40yahoo.com> com
<mailto:bmseekins%40yahoo.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, 8 December, 2009 23:45:22
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case
to go
from Epicor 9 form 8.03?

We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and
cost
of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.

The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case
for
the upgrade.

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Good Day Chris:

We are implementing E9 and are going to use XenServer (Citrix
Virtualization). Only on the miscellaneous server. Not on SQL or
E9-Apps.

We played with the free version and liked it; also, that is more
what Epicor is familiar with with E9.


len.hartka@...


________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:34 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade




Can I just ask why people use VMWare for their main server environment?

________________________________
From: Charlie Wilson <foamdesigncsw@...
<mailto:foamdesigncsw%40yahoo.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, 15 December, 2009 16:07:41
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade


Is everything on the same drive set. (VM OS and VMs themselves?)

~Charlie

_____

From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On
Behalf Of
Chad Jensen
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:33 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

We are currently going though the upgrade process from 6.1 to 9 and we
are
stuck on our servers having Raid 5 which they do not support any
recommendations? We are in a virtual environment so not a easy feat
making
one into a Raid 10.

Thanks,
Chad

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
[mailto:vantage@ yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com]
On
Behalf Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:17 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

We went form V8 to E9.

Fortunately our servers were powerful enough to handle E9 so we had no
cost
there.

We benefitted because a number of bugs in Vantage were fixed in E9.

The BAQ designer is a lot easier but has a number of bugs still.

E9 is definately slower than V8 which is worth considering.

If I were you I would wait until 9.05 before upgrading because a lot is
meant to be fixed by then.

The financials side of things leaves a lot to be desired (certainly in
503B
anyway).

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Sent: Tue, 8 December, 2009 23:45:22
Subject: [Vantage] Epicor 9 Upgrade

Has anyone performed a cost/benefit analysis to make a compelling case
to go
from Epicor 9 form 8.03?

We would benefit from multiple book functionality, but if the risk and
cost
of the upgrade are substainial, it might not be worth it.

The tools look much improved. That might also be part of a business case
for
the upgrade.

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