Good Afternoon,
Im wondering what folks thoughts and experiences are/have been with setting up their server in a virtual machine? To give you a little background, we are currently running BO Edge XI 3.1 on a physical server. Our server is running Windows Server 2008 R2, were using WACS instead of TomCat.
What were debating doing is upgrading / new installation of BO Edge 4.0. Instead of purchasing a new box were looking at setting up a virtual environment using VMware vSphere 5.1. The possible specs of this environment were looking at will most likely be Windows Server R2 64 bit, 32-64GB of ram and about a 1.5TB drive space. Were still trying to decide the best specs and CPU for this box so any help would be much appreciated as well as your experiences / pros & cons moving to a virtual environment vs a physical box. One last thing how has the installation process gone for those who have had to migrate reports from 3.1 to 4.0?
Were a smaller company with about 100 BI users at the moment.
Any help / suggestions are MUCH APPRECIATED!
Thanks,
Tiff