Multiple Windchill applications sharing the same external vaults

[achukwuka]

Hello,

I wanted to ask the group this question to see if this confuguration is possible or maybe someone out there is already doing this. Is it possible for multiple windchill applications to hasre the same vaults. If so what sort of configuration would this require.


Any help would be greatly parreciated.


Thanks

Alexius C. Chukwuka
IT Analyst, PDP Systems
John Deere Power Systems
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[rhoffmann]

We sort of do this. We have many NON-Prod Environments sharing the same NAS. In each environment all folders are marked read only except one that is writable and unique to that environment. I would not recommend this technique in a production environment only because there may be contention for the same file among the different environments.

[wpalm_99]

Alex,

Tony Villanueva posted a technique for leveraging the production vaults for
a test system awhile back. He set all folders on the test system to read
only to prevent any writing from that system. Are you trying to accomplish
something like this?

I would not recommend sharing the actual vaults between systems in any other
scenario where more than one system was able to write to the same
vault/folder.

Best Regards,
Bill Palm
Director - RAPiDS Support Center
ProductSpace Solutions, Inc.
Office: 630.495.2999 X8102
Cell: 630.460.4903


On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Chukwuka Alexius C <
-> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I wanted to ask the group this question to see if this confuguration is
> possible or maybe someone out there is already doing this. Is it possible
> for multiple windchill applications to hasre the same vaults. If so what
> sort of configuration would this require.
>
>
> Any help would be greatly parreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> *Alexius C. Chukwuka*
> *IT Analyst, PDP Systems*
> John Deere Power Systems
> Product Engineering Center
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[achukwuka]

Hi Bill,

We are tying to accomplish the same thing only in a test environment. Another member suggested sharing the same NAS and setting all folders to read-only except one that is writeable and unique to a particular environment.


If you still have the post, could you forward it?

Thanks


Alexius C. Chukwuka
IT Analyst, PDP Systems
John Deere Power Systems
Product Engineering Center
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[patrick.chin1]

We did this for clusters for testing in Rebook where all the servers were NFS mounted to the same vaults. It is not recommended to have separate Windchill apps to the same vault because of oracle indexes will overlap. You need a master server/persistance manager to manage all the other slave server managers so that cache and persistance is in sync.

[patrick.chin1]

if you need to have a test system to manipulate your files for testing for EVAs, SANs, and XPs, I suggest you create multiple vaults at a certain size so that you can mirror/snap/business copy production to test and the last vault is the incremental which is really fast. This way it is a way to play and test without any issues of read only when try to delete or testing other issues like removing unreferenced files. You can keep the old vaults as read only and have the EVA/SAN/XPs move the data over to archive areas to save money.

I do like Tony's idea of read only if you don't have the abiltiy above since EVA and SAN space is expensive. For those who don't even externalize their data into vaults like some companies I know, just do the same as above with your tablespaces and reinitialize your oracle with the correct hostname for the database.