Micros RES on Virtual enironment 1

[Sanjeev1971]

Hi,

We have come to end of life of our Micros servers (RES 4.3 HF1) running on Windows 2003 and now need to upgrade to Windows 2008 and upgrade to RES 5.0.

We have 4 EM servers running a mix of coffee shops, casual dining and fine dining and instead of physical servers, we want to go in for a virtualized environment under Microsoft Hyper V.

Question:
1. Has anyone installed multiple virtual EMs ?
2. How are the physical license dongles managed for virtual EMs ?
3. Any issues identified with Micros on a virtual environment?

Appreciate advice.

Many thanks,
Sanjeev

 

[Moregelen]

Instead of doing this, I highly suggest that you wait for Simphony. They are going to be introducing tenanting which will allow cloud hosting. Every time you add a revenue center, it becomes its own segmented restaurant. From what we are hearing, you will even be able to tier it so that there are regional levels, corporate, etc, of access.

We are already running a simphony server right now to great success and looking forward to the next release.


I've only ever set the micros system up with a single virtual server on the device, but I imagine it would work similarly with multiple. You would need to VLAN things (or at the very least least stick them on different subnets), and as for the license codes, I can tell you that the USB 'capturing' that the VM does works, so you would just make sure each image captured the right license dongle (though.. how many USB ports are you going to have?). The only issue I've ever run into with Virtual Machines is that when networking gets complicated on them, it gets COMPLICATED. It either works, or you'll probably want to put your fist through a screen while trying to get it to work. MICROS is spazzy that way.


Still, I really really recommend you look into simphony if you want to go this way; it is really taking off, and is where MICROS is putting ALL of their R&D (and into MyMicros.. that App is sick looking).

 

[Sanjeev1971]

Hi,

Thanks for the input. Time unfortunately is not on our side and by end of this mth our h/w vendor will stop Win 2003 support which leaves us in a mess. Can you give me more details on the USB capturing so we can set up a test environment and the decide .

Thanks,
Sanjeev

 

[drvcrash]

I use digi USB anywhere boxes for my dongles with vm's .

https://www.digi.com/products/model?mid=3290

 

[Moregelen]

Sorry, no idea what there is for Microsoft vm. Both VMWare Nd Oracle VBox, the two my customers have used, support it natively.

 

[Moregelen]

Alexandru answers you question in a recent thread. Here is the link he posted

http://www.incentivespro.com/hyper-v-usb.html