2 Servers on a single oS n few other doubts.

aliennav

Hey guys!
Can anyone please clear the doubt:
1) Can I install 2 Navision database servers on a single machine??
2) When working with excise buffer table, where does the data gets stored (IN NAV DB or on hard disk)??.
3) When we synchronize all in SQL version of navision, apart from users does anything else gets synchronized??

Your help is appriciated.
Thanx

jlandeen

Yes it is possible to install multiple Role Tailored Services (including Web Service Tiers) on the same server. They cannot be installed by default but it is possible to use the SC command to install a service.

You should check out some of the new walkthroughs that are posted on MSDN. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd301437.aspx

A few things to remember:
1) make sure that each instance of the service tier has a different port number (see the customsettings.config)
2) make sure to setup the Log On user for the service to a user that has access to NAV
3) make sure that you follow the microsoft naming convention of the webservice (it will not start otherwise)

This only works on NAV 2009 RTC environment and not NAV 2009 when running as a classic client.

eknraw

Freddy K has created a couple batch files that automate creating/deleting/adding service tiers:

http://blogs.msdn.com/freddyk/archive/2008/10/29/multiple-service-tiers.aspx

You should be able to configure the service to use Net TCP port sharing and use the same port. There's a note on the MSDN page that Jeff posted about port sharing not working when the service is running under a domain account. I just set this up last Friday and I didn't run into any issues in my dev environment....

Bill

aliennav

Thanx for your help guys.