Autodesk Inventor Vault 2010 - system requirements

[snilloct]

can anyone comment on the system requirements for the vault server

I have found a best practices document but the link provided for system requirements is no longer valid

best practices indicates that it should be installed on a dedicated windows 2003 server with IIS and sql server being the key components

MSDE and full sql are mentioned, is sql express doable (I realize this would depend on the number of users and amount of data)?

thanks in advance for any comments

Tony

[Anonymous]

Vault 2010 will install SQL Express 2005 by default. SQL Express has a 4GB
database limit compared to the 2GB limit of MSDE, but I think it will only
use 1 CPU core andhas some connection limits - so for larger installations
it doesn't scale up as well as full SQL.

The files themselves are not stored within the database so they aren't part
of that limit, but the metadata for the files (properties, relationships,
etc) are. How quickly you reach the 4GB limit will depend on the number of
files you are managing, the number of users, the number of versions per day,
etc

Dave Mink
Autodesk / Data Management

[snilloct]

thanks for the info Dave

this is definitely not a large implementation (likely less than 5 users), it remains to be seen how many revisions/metadata there will be and the growth

any comment on recommended system requirements (other than a dedicated win2k3 server with IIS and SQL)?

also, any potential landmines to avoid with the installation of the vault server component?

[Anonymous]

I think the readme mentions some minimum requirements. But as with any
client/server system with a SQL backend, IMHO, you want the server machine
to have a good amount of RAM (SQL loves RAM ), strong network, decent
CPU, and fast disks. If the files you typically deal with are quite large,
then the network & disk speed will probably be the bottleneck before CPU. A
lot depends on your data and how your designers work. Sorry for this
somewhat non-answer, but I don't think there is any magic bullet that works
for everyone.

A lot of issues around installing the server seem to involve anti-virus
(make sure it is off), firewalls (make sure port 80 is open), and IIS
permissions (the default configuration shouldn't have any issues in Windows
Server 2003).

Hope this helps somehow,

Dave Mink
Autodesk / Data Management

[vmbab]

How about installing Vault on Windows Server 2008. Should it even work?

Ive been trying and the result is that the initial test does destroy our IIS7 installation.

The test says it does not recognize IIS, and the IIS installation is altered in such way that
it stops working, just for the test!

This is on a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 - I find it very strange.