Tim Ganz
Member
We got 3 new laptops and are going to start setting them up soon. We will be using VMware and we are a manufacturing site. We have 13 different process lines of which there are 4 groups with 4 lines per group that have a similar function but were purchased at different points in time from different machine builders.
For my situation when laying out virtual machines should we build a Virtual Machine for each process line since each line has different RSLogix 5000 versions and different AOP’s as well as different networks and different software for non-Rockwell devices?
Or should we build one Virtual Machine with everything on it? It seems like doing one with everything will sort of defeat the purpose of the VM and software may not get along and hog the ports and such. We use a lot of Ethernet communications and USB cables from AB all with different drivers and setups.
My thought is the Virtual Machine per process line option but what do others think. How do you do it?
We have a dongle with a license of each software package for each laptop as we have like 8 license for each software we use.
Also we could have certain virtual machines on each laptop or clone them and put each virtual machine on each laptop as they have large 1TerraByte second bay hard drives and 500 Gigabyte main hard drives that are ssd type.
For my situation when laying out virtual machines should we build a Virtual Machine for each process line since each line has different RSLogix 5000 versions and different AOP’s as well as different networks and different software for non-Rockwell devices?
Or should we build one Virtual Machine with everything on it? It seems like doing one with everything will sort of defeat the purpose of the VM and software may not get along and hog the ports and such. We use a lot of Ethernet communications and USB cables from AB all with different drivers and setups.
My thought is the Virtual Machine per process line option but what do others think. How do you do it?
We have a dongle with a license of each software package for each laptop as we have like 8 license for each software we use.
Also we could have certain virtual machines on each laptop or clone them and put each virtual machine on each laptop as they have large 1TerraByte second bay hard drives and 500 Gigabyte main hard drives that are ssd type.