PDM, archive server; do the archive folders >need< to be local to that server?

[bnemec]

From management standpoint it would be simpler if our archives were not local to the archive server, but rather a network share. A bit about the setup.

- Archive and SQL servers are VMs managed by IT through VSphere
- ALL of our VMs run on a server farm and ALL of the images are hosted on SAN. The physical servers themselves have only enough local storage to for hypervisor.
- ALL of our network shares are also on the SAN. Not Windows shares, the SAN OS handles the shares.

Managing the archive (growing, moving, backing up, etc) would be much simpler if they were not in the VM disk with the archive server OS. So does PDM itself care if the archives are a local disk or does it need some component of Windows indexing that the SAN OS doesn't provide?

Thanks.

[JSculley]

SAN is not tested by SW and they don't make recommendations about such setups, but it is not prohibited.

See S-025962 in the Knowledge Base.

[bnemec]

Thank you, this is perfect.

I wonder how many PDM installations use physical servers vs how many are VMs, and how many are VMs on a HaaS or IaaS.