El_Pablo Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 We are planning to migrate to Filemaker 12 in the following weeks. FMS 11 is already running on a mac mini server which is working well. That's its only task. Lately we purchase a real server from HP with fast 15krpm HDDs (raid-5), dual CPU, plenty of memory, etc. The server is used as a virtual host using Hyper-V. We have a couple questions : Will it be faster to serve Filemaker from the new server or leave it on the mac mini? Can FM server run on SBS 2008? We will virtualize the OS. [*]Is it better to run on SBS or Windows 7 Pro? It won't run any service except Filemaker Server [*]If we keep the Mac Mini, how can we make it faster? Change the HDD, NAS on gigabit switch, ...? Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wim Decorte Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Faster: impossible to answer. Depends on the design of your solution, the other load that you will put on the physical host for the virtual machines,... SBS is not a supported OS but you can make FMS run on it. It is likely to put you outside of FMI support parameters so I would advise against it. RAID5: not ideal for a database server. Raid 1+0 is better. Not sure how the Raid 5 for the VM host will translate in performance issies for its virtual guests. NAS: that's a no-no. Certainly if you were thinking of putting the live files somewhere on the NAS. NAS works through OS-level sharing and is fragile. If you want speed go with an SSD. Or a fibre-channel SAN with plenty of redundancy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies NINU Posted June 22, 2012 Newbies Share Posted June 22, 2012 WILL THE EXE RUNTIME SOLUTION RUN ON ORGANIZTION SERVER WITHOUT USING FILEMAKER PRO SERVER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wim Decorte Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Hi Ninu, When you have a question, start a new topic otherwise users may not see your question (you've made it part of an old topic). Also, don't write in all caps if you will. To answer your question: no. A runtime is for a single user. It can not be shared or used as a server/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John May - Point In Space Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Thumbs up to all of Wim's suggestions. Raid 10 and FibreChannel SANs are what we use here, and work great for FileMaker Server deployments. SAS drives too - no SATA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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