Recommended architecture (physical or virtual) for PAM ?

[Filsbak]

Hello everybody!

 

I am newbie with PAM and I want to know what is recommended about architecture for PAM installation.

Is it absolutely necessary to use architecture with physicals servers or can we use virtuals servers on RHEV for intensive use ?

 

Thx

[IanRich]

Hi,

 

We have been running PAM (and EEM) on Virtual servers running on ESX hosts for several years now with no issues.

Even our MS-SQL DB for CAPA is also hosted on a VM.

 

Ian

[Michael Niebuhr]

Ian is correct, as long as your VM meets minimum requirements there should be no difference between virtual and physical servers.

Please see the Hardware Requirements documentation, which touches on this:

"The configurations are for both physical and virtual machines"

 

https://docops.ca.com/display/CATPA43/Requirements

 

 

Please note, there is an issue with VM running the E1000 NIC driver, and we recommend switching to a VMXnet-3 NIC Driver.

Issue Using the Application on a VMWare Server with the E1000 Network Interface - CA Process Automation - 4.3 - CA Techn…