With AuFS to Windchill Systems and vaults with EVA and NetApp for data tiering there is no need to duplicated Windchill installs and vaults for produciton, test and developments. Linux/Unix OS for Windchill is required.
What AuFS does is that it has the ability to instantly mirror your production system to your cluster, test and development without the need to perform another install. The benefits are:
AuFS Steps:
With an OOTB Windchill installation:
Files can be sorted on various data storage appliances depending on number of times accessed versus the Windchill vaulting rules. Thus, more expensive faster storage hardware appliances can be set at tier 1 and the slower be set at tier 2 and 3.
Overall, this saves tons of money for storage and disk requirements to maintain ITIL methodology for multiple systems of production, test, development and even clustering. Windchill best works on a systems on a blade infrastructure with a 10GIGE backbone switch and all apps installed on remote mounts to the storage array of EVA and NetApp. Thus, we know it requires a good network connection from the servers to the storage array which is standard these days. The entire installation, tmp, vaults can be reused to other systems as a nfs mount. Then add the AuFS to the mix and you have system specific files on a different NFS mount layer.
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