Windchill 9 on Linux

[cadjett]

Hello ALL,

I would appreciate any opinions, history, etc on how Windchill runs on Linux.

I have already read where Fast Instream wont run on Linux. How much else is not supported on Linux?

Cognos, etc??

Now opinions & research knowledge can be helpful, but if some has gone to or from Linux, that will be very helpful.
If some one started at Linux & found it lacking, those reasons would be good to know. Maybe horror stories that
kept you from going to Linux. Maybe even issues while on Linux, but you stay because of management, etc.

If you dont want to post here, you can email me directly & I wont summarize or leak who/why/where...ha..ha

Thanks for any Help.

L Jett
cadjett@aol.com,datajett@aol.com

[cadjett]

Hello

I guess I have seen enough comments on WC on Linux, after using Search.

I just wanted to catch the latest stats/opinions, since some of the postings were a bit old.

It just worries me that parts of Windchill are new to Linux, so I worry about admin/network timeverses arch, config, dev time.

I also worry with things like FastInstream, Cognos, Rose not working on Linux, unless I'm mistaken.

Thanks
L Jett

[patrick.chin1]

Here is some documents that might help you out. I've installed PDMLink 9.0 and 9.1 on Linux 4.7 ES and AS at Psion Teklogix and Com Dev International. With the multiple AMD or INTEL quad6 2.6 to 3.16 GHz cores. It has 10X better performance than the HP-UX itaniums. Never had to go to cluster, because the system was performing well with 3 to 5GIG of allocation to every java process including tomcat. The 8 to 16 cores handle all the 5 foreground and 3 background (2 for publishing and 1 for other). All our data is tied to the EVASANXPS. We are now considering updating our network server bandwidth to 10G between the oracle, workers and Windchill. We have over 70 concurrent ProE users with 6 CAD workers on a single workstation. If you have time, I suggest you go with Windchill 9.1 M050 with Red Hat Linux 5.# ES if you just need 2 CPU sockets with unlimited RAM. You can start with a 2X Quad Core and move up to potentially 2X 812 core with 3 channel connection to DDR3 ram which is suppose to be released at the end of this year.

It really all depends on your application and how you plan to use Windchill.

In 2005 at a FlexPDM 7.0 Upgrade Implementation Reebok which is now Adidas in Canton, I found out that with a new free version of java to be able to handle a larger heap memory size of 2 GIG instead of 700 meg,completely removed the PTC requirement of a clustered system. I proved out that the methodservers was not being used and it was solely tomcat to oracle. It could of saved a ton of money of consulting and hardware for this cluster requirement if test were done in advance. I had the original developer of FlexPDM confirm my findings and suggest we cluster Tomcat if requried. There were some additional 4 oracle indexes which were suggested by Oracle Optimizer and toad which was placed into Oracle. These were the old HP-UX 4400s.

In 2008,this is the storey what happened at Psion Teklogix which was a Windchill 8.09.0 and then finally upgraded to 9.1. We bought,

· Production Windchill APP HP-UX Itaniums which were. (oracle guy bought them) Oracle installed on a separate oracle system.
o OS: HP-UX itanium
o dual cores X 4
o max CPU core is 1.6 GHz
o 64 GIGs of RAM
o 4 gig min and 5 gig max for each processor
o <u>http:h20219.www2.hp.comintegrityw1enmid-rangerx7640-specifications.html<u>
· Test HP Intel machines dual cores X4 – Linux 4.7 AS (they were on sale, MIS manager got a deal)
o OS: Linux 4.7 AS
o AMD dual cores X 4 (3.0 GHz core)
o max CPU core is 1.6 GHz
o 64 GIGs of RAM
o 4 gig min and 5 gig max for each processor
o <u>http:h10010.www1.hp.comwwpcusensmWF06a15351-15351-3328412-241644-3328422-3646081.html<u>
· Development machines intel quad cores
o OS: Linux 4.7 AS (kept it the same)
o Intel quad cores X 4 (2.93 GHz core)
o max CPU core is 1.6 GHz
o 32 GIGs of RAM
o 3 gig min and 4 gig max for each processor
o <u>http:h71016.www7.hp.comdstorectoBases.asp?ProductLineId=431&FamilyId=2991&jumpid=re_R2515_storesmProdCatDL300DL380G6<u>
· Our production and test database were on mirrored systems owned by the oracle db which were also the HP-UX itaniums
· All servers were on the same network VLAN and switches with fibre GIG connection
· All servers were configured tuned identically with exception between OS of Linux and HP-UX itanium ...

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At Com Dev Int. Ltd, we are now moving to 2 or 4 X 6 core with AMD or Intel Blades. Increasing the number of method servers to 6 or 8 depending on the number of concurrent users. We are currently on production HP-UX itaniums rp2600 which are maxed out with 2X Dual Core 1.6 GHz CPUs. We are now plann...

• constantly monitoring the cache
• syncing the cache between the master and slaves
• NFS mounts between the SLAVES to the MASTER vault mount. This would cause a slight delay on the master. We use EVA where the master has the single mount to the EVA controlllers. If you use a NAS then this issue would not exist since they all have direct access to the vaults

• We also found out that the backgrounds and foregrounds would get taxed if the publishing was slow. We increased throughput the connection between our worker and server and the Windchill server has a better performance because it doesn’t have to wait for the CAD workers to respond.

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