zacslade
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Hi All,
I have a client with a virtualized engineering workstation on HyperV, with TIA Portal Step 7 Basic Version 14 installed. They wish to be able to program a number of Siemens Simatic S7-1200 PLCs from this workstation, and they want to be able to keep their code on Siemens SD cards in order to enjoy whatever benefits SD cards give (for easy PLC replacement, etc.)
The Engineering VM does not have access to the USB ports on their server, because that's a limitation of Hyper V, and for some reason the server host OS isn't even recognizing things that are plugged into its USB ports -- so I'd like to avoid using troubleshooting their Hyper V server or using any Hyper V workarounds if I can help it.
The other option I want to explore is remotely programming the SD cards. Can I plug the SD card into the PLC and program it using the Engineering VM? Or, is there a way to program the PLC and then (one-time-only) transfer the code from the PLC to the SD card?
Let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks!
I have a client with a virtualized engineering workstation on HyperV, with TIA Portal Step 7 Basic Version 14 installed. They wish to be able to program a number of Siemens Simatic S7-1200 PLCs from this workstation, and they want to be able to keep their code on Siemens SD cards in order to enjoy whatever benefits SD cards give (for easy PLC replacement, etc.)
The Engineering VM does not have access to the USB ports on their server, because that's a limitation of Hyper V, and for some reason the server host OS isn't even recognizing things that are plugged into its USB ports -- so I'd like to avoid using troubleshooting their Hyper V server or using any Hyper V workarounds if I can help it.
The other option I want to explore is remotely programming the SD cards. Can I plug the SD card into the PLC and program it using the Engineering VM? Or, is there a way to program the PLC and then (one-time-only) transfer the code from the PLC to the SD card?
Let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks!