Vault/Productstream and Hardware

[Anonymous]

I'm looking to purchase hardware for my Vault/Productstream server. We have 20 engineers using Inventor and Acad E. As fas as hardware goes, I'm looking at a HP ML350 server.. Dual 3.2 Xeons, 4GB RAM, (5) 146GB SCSI drives set up as a RAID5 running Windows Server 2003 Standard.
I want to start off with Vault but upgrade it to Productstream in about 6-8 months. Will that be a hassle?
Thanks.
Also, I don't understand the SQL thing. Do I need to purchase SQL Server to use Vault/Productstream?

[Anonymous]

Your hardware is sufficient for the job.

Vault server comes with MSDE that has a 2 GB limit of Database size.
So purchasing SQL server will not be a bad idea.

Upgrading from Vault to Productstream will be smooth and effortless. I do
not see any hassle there.


Just out of curiosity - Why do you want to start with Vault? Why not
Productstream?
You can always install Productstream and use only the Vault functionality
[file version management] and use other features like Items and revision
control later.

There is one point to note -

Vault databases can be easily migrated to Productstream but not the otherway
round.


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Ajay Choudhary
Software Engineer
Autodesk Inc.



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I'm looking to purchase hardware for my Vault/Productstream server. We have
20 engineers using Inventor and Acad E. As fas as hardware goes, I'm
looking at a HP ML350 server.. Dual 3.2 Xeons, 4GB RAM, (5) 146GB SCSI
drives set up as a RAID5 running Windows Server 2003 Standard.
I want to start off with Vault but upgrade it to Productstream in about 6-8
months. Will that be a hassle?
Thanks.
Also, I don't understand the SQL thing. Do I need to purchase SQL Server to
use Vault/Productstream?