Micros RES 4 virtualized

[xpsvicayas]

Hi every one,

This is my first post.

Is there any guideline to virtualize Micros Res 4 using VMware, i'll appreciate any help on this matter.
Or can any one could share their experience with virtualizing Micros server

Thank you.

 

[Moregelen]

Installing Microns on a virtual machine is easy; the Micros product has no idea its on a virtual machine. Things only get a bit stickier if you plan to run a live site this way, but even that has gotten considerably easier given that most Virtual Machines these days can pass a USB device to the VM easily. I personally run four (3700 RES 5 & 4, Simphony, and 9700) server on an ESXi server. Its a nice, free bare-metal VM that is optimized for windows servers already:

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/

 

[xpsvicayas]

Thank you Moregelen for you quick response.

I'm planning to run Micros v4 live for one of my clients. For this we'll be using Vmware an the idea is this.
-Virtualize de actual server
-Run the virtualized server to do some test and then go live
-Perform a DB backup in a NAS so we can get the DB ready to run in a Non virtualized server

If the virtualized server fails we can get the DB from the NAS and attach it to a fresh server installation, does that make sense to you?

 

[Moregelen]

I don't see a problem with that, but it does seem like quite a bit of work for no real gain that I can see. If you virtualize, you might as well be backing up he entire VM, this way, if it fails, you have a VM you can just relaunch on any piece of hardware rather than having to build a new Micros installation before you can recover the database. Still, I don't see anything necessary hard with what you want to do. You're going to be running it on a computer people have access to? Which VMWare program are you going to use? I would definitely recommend ESXi, which is a VMWare product.

 

[xpsvicayas]

Thank's again Moregelen,

The whole purpose is to have a Virtual server in production and as a recovery plan so we can get the system up and running again in an other machine in case de equipment where the VM machines are running fails, so the idea is to have a plan for disaster

Answering you questions, We'll be running it on a computer (server) that we can access remotely, locally probably just accesed for the mannager.
We'll be using Vmware stand allone.

So aprantley the mayor problem could be the dongle right? With the VMware stand allone would be enough?

I spoke with Micros whom told me that the vistualization is possible only from 5.1 or higher. that's why all of this.

PS. Sorry for my English english it's not my native languaje