VMWare with Navision

Viji_Ganesan

Hi All,

What is VMWare? Where can I find details about VMWare?

Does Navision is Compatible with VMWare?

What all the uses of VMWare?

Please anyone explain me with basics....

kirkostas

VMware is a software which emulates a PC.
This gives you the opportunity to install different operating systems
within windows environment.
You can have Linux, Unix, Windows (all versions), etc.
You can use this for testing environment or just to have different
operating systems but without installed them physically.
VMware have his own motherboard, graphic card, sound card, network
but not in hardware but in software. That's why it is a PC emulator.

Navision doesn't have anything to do with VMware.

You can download a demo version here http://info.vmware.com/content/GLP_VMwareWkstn?urlcode=Google_Competitive_Xen

Extra hint: VMware was a very successful application, and Microsoft decide to create a similar program. This is VirtualPC and you can find it here
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

Waldo

an alternative for VMWare is (Microsoft's) Virtual PC.

Marije_Brummel

IMHO, it is used the other way around in the profesional business.

Directly on the machine is an extra layer which manages several virtual servers. For the network it seems like they are different servers. You can decide which virtual server get's which resources.

One of the benefits is that they can share memory for the same dll's and stuff.

For It people it is easier to manage and keep stuff separated.

If you give the Navision VMServer enough resources it should work just fine.

Good luck.

Waldo

Actually ... we have one implementation running on that ... and indeed, it runs certainly not worse then before on a dedicated server.

There are no official papers with recommendations though...

Phenno

Waldo wrote:

Actually ... we have one implementation running on that ... and indeed, it runs certainly not worse then before on a dedicated server.

There are no official papers with recommendations though...

Actually, Microsoft didn't create Virtual PC but rather bought it and continued development (such as Navision). VMWare is used on some IBM servers for virtualisation purposes and in production on big systems... And it works quite ok.

Waldo

I know ...

And you know what they say ... If you can't beat them .. buy them.

jlandeen

As many have said here VM Ware just lets you build up a virtual server based on a real one. I have played with both VMWare and Virtual PC and I found VMware to perform much better. VMWare makes better use of resources and performs much better then Virtual PC so I would recommend it over Virtual PC.

2 uses for Navision on a Virtualized PC (either VMWare or Virtual PC) are:
- Development in a clean, controlled environment
- Testing & Support of production problems

The testing & support has definately helped in the past. As production servers are live and normally cannot be touched, having a similar virtual image setup allows for testing of fixes and updates that could otherwise take the production server offline. Thus allowing a fix to be fully tested in a similar environment before loading in a production environment and hopefully minimizing downtime and risk.

Viji_Ganesan

Hi,

Sorry, Still I didnt get a clear idea about VMWare.

I was questioned by my PM, does VMWare supports Navision? :?:

What will be use of VMWare in Navision? :?:

VMWare itself have different OS in it, or we have to install different OS in that after installation? :!:

These questions might sound funny to u all, pls help me out....

idiot

http://www.vmware.com/

Viji_Ganesan

Hi,

Does it replicate the data which we have saved in the current system to anyother system?

Can you confirm me, that Navision works fine with both VMWare and Virtual Machine? I have to explain with ur reply to our customer....

Kindly help me.

Marije_Brummel

You seriously need to read all the replies. Your answer is already there.

For general information about VMWare use google.

Waldo

Indeed.

It's not really: dus "VMWare support Navision" ... but "Can NAV run under VMWare". And that's the same as: "Can Windows XP, Windows2003,... run under VMWare", because NAV runs under those operating systems.

So the answer is simply "yes". I've got 3 VMWare's and 6 Virtual PC's (for all different purposes) ... all with NAV on it.

But really ... I doubt if this is the question of your customer ... I think it has more to do with virtualisation.

DenSter

VMWare has certifications for certain software titles, and I do not think Navision, of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, is one of them. Other than that, the answer has already been given, so I would only repeat it.