Pron and cons of network installation?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
January 25, 2019
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Hello!
I'm like idea of network installation Creo - easy to deploy new versions.
But what about perfomance in this case?
Maybe you know another bad aspects i
n this case?
Please, share your expiriens.

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BenLoosli

23-Emerald III

I have done network installs for the past 9 years. If you have gigabit connections from your server to the workstations, there is no noticeable performance degradation.

I use a mapped drive to all my workstations and server that is on a large data filer. Then I install Creo to that drive and use shortcuts to the user workstations. Creo Agent, etc are installed on the server and pointed to by a batch file that I run from the parametric.bat file in the install /bin folder.

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TomU

23-Emerald IV

I do the same thing as @BenLoosli. Creo and all of its dependents are installed to a mapped network drive. I did a bunch of performance testing in the past. The only real difference between a network installation and a local installation was during startup where the ~300 MB .exe file is copied over the network to launch Creo. After that the performance was nearly identical. We also have gigabit network connections to all of our workstations.

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YaroslavSin

Author

17-Peridot

My fist thoughts was about long start Creo in this case - need to download files by network.
Looks like I need to test network installation in my local network. Now I see, that network perfomance very important.
Before I used silent installation, but this procedure still need alot time for deploing.
Thanks for sharing

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Chris3

21-Topaz I

If you do not have gigabit connections or your network has dropped packets then the software will simply crash when a user picks a menu and it can't retrieve the data associated with that menu over the network.