R-110
Member
Hello all,
There comes a time in everyone's career when you have to say enough is enough. That day for me is today. My manager is currently 630mi away and having trouble opening my Factroytalk view ME HMI project files. Backing up, restoring, installing different versions, none of it is working. We are able to work around this but this is not fair to either me (receiving calls after hours for something I can't help with), my colleagues, or the customers we provide for. I am implementing a company wide change to use a virtual machine. The goal is to spec an OS for each job, develop in that particular VM, save the files on that VM, and back up on our company shared drives for anyone to pull that VM down, with the correct PLC and HMI files, and be able to work without version discrepancies hindering us. What I would like to know from you all is, what VM's are you using, how are you using them, what do you like, what do you not like, and anything else you feel would be important to know for someone trying to implement this. I really appreciate your time and I look forward to some great discussions. Hopefully we can archive/sticky this for future programmers to refer to, it would seem the industry has come to widely accept VM machine for PLC development. Finding solid information would benefit us all.
There comes a time in everyone's career when you have to say enough is enough. That day for me is today. My manager is currently 630mi away and having trouble opening my Factroytalk view ME HMI project files. Backing up, restoring, installing different versions, none of it is working. We are able to work around this but this is not fair to either me (receiving calls after hours for something I can't help with), my colleagues, or the customers we provide for. I am implementing a company wide change to use a virtual machine. The goal is to spec an OS for each job, develop in that particular VM, save the files on that VM, and back up on our company shared drives for anyone to pull that VM down, with the correct PLC and HMI files, and be able to work without version discrepancies hindering us. What I would like to know from you all is, what VM's are you using, how are you using them, what do you like, what do you not like, and anything else you feel would be important to know for someone trying to implement this. I really appreciate your time and I look forward to some great discussions. Hopefully we can archive/sticky this for future programmers to refer to, it would seem the industry has come to widely accept VM machine for PLC development. Finding solid information would benefit us all.