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.

Hi everyone,

I've been tempted to try out Proxmox and perhaps run my lab VMs on it just as a learning experience.

Fundamentally, products like System Platform, InTouch, and Historian run on Microsoft Windows and we do not have direct interation with the hypervisors. Therefore, it will often be possible to run without issues on most hypervisors, and "often" is generally an acceptable quality of service for development systems, demos, or test benches.

However, when it comes to production systems, we must be very careful with what we officially support. Even if Proxmox may work for some applications, we do not know for sure how the combination of our software and Proxmox pans out in context of varyingconfigurations, hardware utilization, or advanced capabilities such as High Availability, Fault Tolerance, or Disaster Recovery. Hence we cannot stand behind that as an officially tested and supported combination. For some that is ok, for others it is not. If you do use Proxmox, there is a good chance that it may work, but AVEVA will not guarantee it.

Today, most customer demand is for VMware or Hyper-V and as far as I know there are no funded plans to validate and support Proxmox. If there is a noticable raise in demand for supporting Proxmox in production systems, we may consider validating it. However, we prefer to direct our investments toward more granular deployment options than Windows-based VMs, such as containers.