Comments on: Virtual Machine Upgrade To XI 3.1 SP2 Complete http://www.dagira.com/2010/03/31/virtual-machine-upgrade-to-xi-3-1-sp2-complete/ ...you are in a twisty maze of passageways, all different... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:17:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eileen King http://www.dagira.com/2010/03/31/virtual-machine-upgrade-to-xi-3-1-sp2-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-1128 Eileen King Wed, 05 May 2010 18:44:34 +0000 http://www.dagira.com/?p=249#comment-1128 I've definitely had a fun time abusing the input controls! I'm going to cover some of that in the Web Intelligence presentation in May in Orlando! I’ve definitely had a fun time abusing the input controls! I’m going to cover some of that in the Web Intelligence presentation in May in Orlando!

]]> By: Dave Rathbun http://www.dagira.com/2010/03/31/virtual-machine-upgrade-to-xi-3-1-sp2-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-1067 Dave Rathbun Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:38:56 +0000 http://www.dagira.com/?p=249#comment-1067 Huw, I started with the Microsoft VM. However, I found VMware to be much faster at booting and general performance so I switched. When I worked for Integra we used VMware images for all of our classroom workstations, which was great. After a class we would roll each system back to the preserved snapshot and we have a completely clean system ready for the next session. With my older (slower) laptop I found that moving the VM image to an external hard disk - especially a 7200 RPM disk - improved the performance substantially. My boot times went from 5 minutes or more down to about 2 minutes on my older system. My newer laptop does not have these problems. :) Pat, I have not run into that specific error. It might help if you post the error along with the specific syntax that you are using in your prompt on BOB where you will get responses from a wider audience. Huw, I started with the Microsoft VM. However, I found VMware to be much faster at booting and general performance so I switched. When I worked for Integra we used VMware images for all of our classroom workstations, which was great. After a class we would roll each system back to the preserved snapshot and we have a completely clean system ready for the next session.

With my older (slower) laptop I found that moving the VM image to an external hard disk – especially a 7200 RPM disk – improved the performance substantially. My boot times went from 5 minutes or more down to about 2 minutes on my older system. My newer laptop does not have these problems. :)

Pat, I have not run into that specific error. It might help if you post the error along with the specific syntax that you are using in your prompt on BOB where you will get responses from a wider audience.

]]> By: Pat http://www.dagira.com/2010/03/31/virtual-machine-upgrade-to-xi-3-1-sp2-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-1065 Pat Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:49:23 +0000 http://www.dagira.com/?p=249#comment-1065 Hello Dave, Love your posts. We recently upgraded our server with XI R3 SP2 FP 2.1 and have been receiving an error message "API ProcessDPCommands' Error: ERR WIS 30270 which impacts running reports. This seems to occur when using specific prompt filters. We have tried recreating the filter but have run into the same error. BO has not been very helpful. Have you run into this issue as of yet? Thanks for all of your help! Hello Dave,

Love your posts. We recently upgraded our server with XI R3 SP2 FP 2.1 and have been receiving an error message “API ProcessDPCommands’ Error: ERR WIS 30270 which impacts running reports. This seems to occur when using specific prompt filters. We have tried recreating the filter but have run into the same error. BO has not been very helpful. Have you run into this issue as of yet? Thanks for all of your help!

]]> By: Huw http://www.dagira.com/2010/03/31/virtual-machine-upgrade-to-xi-3-1-sp2-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-1063 Huw Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:59:43 +0000 http://www.dagira.com/?p=249#comment-1063 I agree about VMs – we have ESXi 4 setup as a test lab and it’s so easy to chop and change environments. Good for development purposes - but additional features like snapshots, backups etc need to be tested if they are to be used in a production BO environment. When away from the office I use MS Virtual PC and VM Player. In fact just went through the pain of upgrading from Vista 32bit to 64bit just so my VMs can make use of the extra memory. Still haven’t decided between MS or VMware – MS Virtual PC seems to be smoother on my laptop, but I'm not sure it is actually a 64 bit app. Great blog BTW. I agree about VMs – we have ESXi 4 setup as a test lab and it’s so easy to chop and change environments. Good for development purposes – but additional features like snapshots, backups etc need to be tested if they are to be used in a production BO environment.

When away from the office I use MS Virtual PC and VM Player. In fact just went through the pain of upgrading from Vista 32bit to 64bit just so my VMs can make use of the extra memory. Still haven’t decided between MS or VMware – MS Virtual PC seems to be smoother on my laptop, but I’m not sure it is actually a 64 bit app.

Great blog BTW.

]]> By: Dave Rathbun http://www.dagira.com/2010/03/31/virtual-machine-upgrade-to-xi-3-1-sp2-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-1062 Dave Rathbun Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:56:26 +0000 http://www.dagira.com/?p=249#comment-1062 I am running Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit) on my HP HDX 16 laptop. I have a bare minimum of stuff installed on the "host" operating system, as I primarily use it to run virtual machine images. For that, I use software from VMWare. Right now I have both version 1 and version 2 running (on different systems). My laptop is running VMware Server 2.0.1. The "guest" operating system is Windows Server 2003. It's 32 bit software, but has no problems running on the 64 bit host operating system. I have about 4GB of RAM (3600MB) allocated to the virtual system and it runs great. Earlier I was running a similar setup on a 2GB system and it was... functional. Not ideal, but functional. I am very happy with my current system. I am running Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit) on my HP HDX 16 laptop. I have a bare minimum of stuff installed on the “host” operating system, as I primarily use it to run virtual machine images. For that, I use software from VMWare. Right now I have both version 1 and version 2 running (on different systems). My laptop is running VMware Server 2.0.1.

The “guest” operating system is Windows Server 2003. It’s 32 bit software, but has no problems running on the 64 bit host operating system. I have about 4GB of RAM (3600MB) allocated to the virtual system and it runs great. Earlier I was running a similar setup on a 2GB system and it was… functional. Not ideal, but functional. I am very happy with my current system.

]]> By: Dan Flanery http://www.dagira.com/2010/03/31/virtual-machine-upgrade-to-xi-3-1-sp2-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 Dan Flanery Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:13:59 +0000 http://www.dagira.com/?p=249#comment-1061 I think 32-bit Enterprise versions of Windows prior to Win 7 / Vista, like Win Server 2003 which Dave says he's running (assuming he's running an Enterprise version) support the PAE switch. That would allow Windows to give applications each their own address space, up to 4GB, depending on how much RAM you have in the system. So in an 8GB system, I think Windows would be running within the standard 4GB of RAM, and the app you're running would get the other 4GB, with Windows tricking the app into thinking it was accessing the standard 4GB. Not sure what the total RAM limit is for this - 16GB maybe? Also not sure what Windows does if you run multiple apps - does it dynamically reduce the amount of memory available to each app, or once the running apps have gobbled up all of the space beyond 4GB, in 4GB chunks, do additional apps drop back to sharing the standard 4GB of RAM with the OS? I think 32-bit Enterprise versions of Windows prior to Win 7 / Vista, like Win Server 2003 which Dave says he’s running (assuming he’s running an Enterprise version) support the PAE switch. That would allow Windows to give applications each their own address space, up to 4GB, depending on how much RAM you have in the system.

So in an 8GB system, I think Windows would be running within the standard 4GB of RAM, and the app you’re running would get the other 4GB, with Windows tricking the app into thinking it was accessing the standard 4GB.

Not sure what the total RAM limit is for this – 16GB maybe? Also not sure what Windows does if you run multiple apps – does it dynamically reduce the amount of memory available to each app, or once the running apps have gobbled up all of the space beyond 4GB, in 4GB chunks, do additional apps drop back to sharing the standard 4GB of RAM with the OS?

]]> By: Marek http://www.dagira.com/2010/03/31/virtual-machine-upgrade-to-xi-3-1-sp2-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-1060 Marek Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:39:53 +0000 http://www.dagira.com/?p=249#comment-1060 Hi Dave, I remember from one of your older blogs that you have 8 GB of RAM in your at-that-time-new laptop. Question - which OS do you use on the laptop that can work with that much RAM? Is it Windows 7 or anything else? And which SW do you use for VM? Thank you. Hi Dave,
I remember from one of your older blogs that you have 8 GB of RAM in your at-that-time-new laptop. Question – which OS do you use on the laptop that can work with that much RAM? Is it Windows 7 or anything else? And which SW do you use for VM?

Thank you.

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