RE: Production Environment Definition

Brad,
We use connected environments so that we do not have a single point of
failure.
We use multiple environments and connect them together in a star topology
for reliability of service. Our servers (23 in total) sit out at branches
in the back of beyond and the WAN connections between the servers are
unreliable. One needs a reliable connection to the Name Service which sits
on each Environment Manager. We have thus created 23 connected
environments with an Environment Manager on each LAN. Connected
environments are still a bit buggy but Tech Support is currently working on
fixing the last of the problems. We are still on ver 2H15 for this reason.
Disadvantages of this topology are that making distributions take a long
time because referenced partitioning cannot be scripted in fscript and
econsole only connects to one environment at a time.
There is a Forté consultant in Denver called Pieter Pretorius who has had a
lot of experience with our connected environments. It may be worth
chatting to him.
Regards,
Richard Stobart
Technical Consultant for Forté
E-mail [email protected]
Quick-mail: [email protected]
Voice: (+ 27 83) 269 1942
(+27 11) 456 2238
Fax: (+ 27 83) 8269 1942
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Wells [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 11:52 PM
To: 'Forte Users - Sage'
Subject: Production Environment Definition
Hello again,
We are just starting to look at what it will take to setup a production
Forte environment. I have some general questions regarding
considerations that may affect the environment definition and thought
maybe some of the more experienced users could share some thoughts on the
following:
1) What factors lead to the creation of multiple production environments?
a. How many environments should you use in a production situation?
b. Do people create separate environments for separate business units?
c. Are there performance improvements to be had by restricting the
number of server and client nodes included in a single environment?
d. How do the performance benefits of multiple environments compare to
the additional complexity of managing and maintaining multiple connected
environments?
The initial need is for an environment that will service approximately 50
clients and contain a couple of server nodes (database and service
related). However, as the environment grows, it could easily grow to a
size of 600 clients encompassing approximately 15-20 server nodes.
At this point in time, there is no need for the failover support of
connected environments, but this is something we will need to add as the
environment absorbs applications with high reliability needs. Should the
environments be setup and connected right away or can this be easily
added on an "as needed" basis? What other recommendations would you
make?
Has anyone taken advantage of Forte consulting services in defining the
production environment? Where you satisfied with the results of the
service?
Thanks.
Bradley Wells
[email protected]
Strong Capital Management, Inc
http://www.strong-funds.com

On Tue, 10 Feb 98 13:52:00 PST Brad Wells <[email protected]>
writes:
At this point in time, there is no need for the failover support of
connected environments, but this is something we will need to add as
the
environment absorbs applications with high reliability needs. Should
the
environments be setup and connected right away or can this be easily
added on an "as needed" basis? What other recommendations would you
make?
From the Forte Systems Management point of view, you can add them "asneeded"
fairly easily.
Now from the application source code point of view, implementing
Fail/Over support
is a different story... You will need to check your SO's dialog
durations, handle
DistributedAccessExceptions, "warm-up" your distributed references for
F/O,
design a solution for restoring global transient data, do lots of
testings etc...
So implementing Fail/Over is not only related to systems-management
issues, it can
have some influence on your application(s) source code.
Hope this helps,
Vincent Figari
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Hello again,
We are just starting to look at what it will take to setup a production
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1) What factors lead to the creation of multiple production environments?
a. How many environments should you use in a production situation?
b. Do people create separate environments for separate business units?
c. Are there performance improvements to be had by restricting the
number of server and client nodes included in a single environment?
d. How do the performance benefits of multiple environments compare to
the additional complexity of managing and maintaining multiple connected
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On Tue, 10 Feb 98 13:52:00 PST Brad Wells <[email protected]>
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I started this on another forum before I found this one, but this seems a more suitable place.
The definition of "production environment" seems rather odd. In some responses on this forum it appears to refer to "soft" systems whereas the latest MSDN licence refers to environment and physical kit.
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are only for development & testing purposes?
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Or does it just mean that the bare metal licence (plus any additional ones required for running further production VMs) must be purchased if the VMs are a mix of production and development?
Answer:
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dedicated hardware and software to provide "live" service. If the intent was to say that the same physical server could be used for both development and production - it would say "not licensed for use in a production OSE," instead
it says environment.
See current PUR, page 51:
Developer Tools (User License)
You have the rights below for each license you acquire.
# You must assign each license to a single user.
# Each Licensed User may run an unlimited number of copies of the Developer Tools software and any prior version on any device.
# The Licensed User may use the software for evaluation and to design, develop, test, and demonstrate your programs. These rights include the use of the software to simulate an end user environment to diagnose issues related to your programs.
# The software is not licensed for use in a production environment. # Additional rights provided in license terms included with the software are additive to these product use rights, provided that there is no conflict
with these product use rights, except for superseding use terms outlined below.
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Answer:
We kindly inform that after double-checking the case we would like to confirm the development software cannot be run on the same hardware with production software.
We have also received a feedback from the responsible team regarding your request about a dedicated SAN (Storage Area Network) for MSDN software.
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Hi Mike,
It sucks that MSDN software can't be run in a production environment, that means you have to have two entirely separate hardware environments, which are costly, and it seems unnecessary.
That's essentially it. I'm not saying for one second that it should be used for production purposes, just that it's physical location shouldn't be relevant. Also, the word "environment" is a very bad choice in the documentation simply because it's very open
to interpretation.
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My reading is based on the "Other Guidance" section:
"If a physical machine running one or more virtual machines is used entirely for development and test, then the operating system used on the physical host system can be MSDN software. However, if the physical machine or any of the VMs
hosted on that physical system are used for other purposes, then both the operating system within the VM and the operating system for the physical host must be licensed separately."
<o:p>This is the crux of the matter and the interpretation of "licensed separately". A (to my mind) sensible reading of that would be "if you're running any production purpose VMs on a server then the physical host OS must be a full licence
[presuming it's Server 2012 and not, say, VMWare or Hyper-V 2012] as must all production purpose VMs on that server". This has been getting interpreted by others (I'm not the first) and backed up by MS as meaning that if you want to run any dev/test VMs on
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here, on the MSDN Licensing help page that says (with my added emphasis):
Many
MSDN subscribers use a computer for mixed use—both design, development, testing, and demonstration of your programs (the use allowed under the MSDN subscription license) and some other use. Using the software in any other way, such as for doing email,
playing games, or editing a document is another use and is not covered by the MSDN subscription license.
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machine cannot be licensed using MSDN if that work machine is going to be doing non-msdn things in addition to MSDN things. It doesn't say "This can't happen" it just says "When this happens, the underlying
OS must be licensed normally..."
So, based on what I'm reading it seems that this quote from you might not be true:
"We can't install a local MSDN instance of Server 2012 or 8.1 for dev and test under Hyper-V on desktops
because desktops used for email, writing documents, etc are production. "
I wouldn't have expected this to be true either, but this is the response I was given. It may well be
that my question was misunderstood. I hope this is the case otherwise one of the big reasons for turning on Hyper-V on expensive, powerful desktops enabling the running of personal test environments goes out the window!
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