Hello. Anyone have installed/used AVEVA System Platform in a PROXMOX Virtual Enviroment instead of VMWare or Hyper-V? Appreciate any comment or use case.

Hey Yerson, I have had a play with this, and after VMWare subscription model, we are also looking for alternate options. Currently found no issue running on Proxmox but it's not officially supported by AVEVA as a hypervisor. I found issues when i did cloning and redundancy. So, I used two different OS and used System Platform redundancy, VMWare worked on even OS redundancy which seems to not work on Proxmox

Thanks Rainer. Very useful information on this. Regards!

Let me know what you use as a hypervisor after VMware , would love to know your feedback

We migrated already all our VM's to Proxmox and it's working fine. The last machines that are on the old hypervisor are the Citect systems. It is open now if we run them without the Aveva support on Proxmox or looking for a different solution as Plant Scada.

Hi Rainer,

I got the question yesterday if we support Proxmox. You wrote here that you are using Proxmox as hypervisor, and that everything seems to work fine. From the the perspective of AVEVA I have to tell the customer that it isn't supported. But they want to use it and asking us what they can get of support. They understand that we cannot guarantee they will not run in any problem. But it can of course.

Can rephase a little bit more what you ment with:
I found issues when i did cloning and redundancy. So, I used two different OS and used System Platform redundancy, VMWare worked on even OS redundancy which seems to not work on Proxmox

If a product manager of AVEVA reads this than I want to know if there are plans in the near future to also support this Proxmox hypervisor stuff.

Hi Laurent, I didn’t understand your question for me ?? Was it a question or just information?

In the first alinea I mention that I also got the question about the support of the AVEVA software on Proxmox.

But I'm asking you to explain the italic part more in depth.

Hi Lauran, one of the advantages of using a hypervisor is backup and recovery, say if the OS or hardware crashed, i would like a second instance from a cluster/ secondary hardware to take the OS image and spin up the VM thereby reducing downtime. When i tried to do this in Proxmox it actually failed, i couldn't find the reason but the same worked in VmWare vsphere 8.0 

Hi Guido, that's positive to hear , can you educate me a little bit about licensing ? How does Proxomox licensing work ? 

Clear Rainer. Thx