Feb 22- Deployment
Overview. Angelo Luchi of The Drooling Dog will be speaking.
Deployment
Deployment is a critical step in the success of your solution. In this session Angelo will explore the various methodologies for FileMaker Application deployment and help you determine which one(s) are appropriate for a given situation. He’ll be covering Citrix, Hosting, In-House Server, IWP,PHP. He will explore some benefits and issues with each process.
He’ll also be talking a bit about a new service that he’s offering through his hosting business that can help you or your client deploy through Citrix quickly, easily and economically.
Angelo Luchi is a 10+ year veteran developer of FileMaker software. In that time he has been building enterprise FileMaker applications, innovative web applications, integrating FileMaker with Web Services, and building a reliable FileMaker hosting infrastructure. Angelo is the owner of The Drooling Dog, LLC, a Seattle based company providing FileMaker and Web development as well as a multitude of hosting options, to the community. He offers coast to coast server availability and now Citrix XenApp hosting.
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Questions?
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4 Comments
BenGraham on February 20th, 2010
Hi,
Is anyone, who is going to the FMPug Meeting Feb 22nd, near Greenwood that could give me a lift to the meeting. I have sold my car (moving next week to Australia), and would like to go.
Thanks,
Ben Graham
Angelo Luchi on February 21st, 2010
Hi Jim -
FileMaker Server runs wonderfully in a virtualized environment. There are some things you do have to plan for still. In a VM instance, you can specify things like how much and how many CPUs your VM can use. Same goes for memory, drive, and disk IO priority. Based on the predicted usage of the server, you should set those accordingly. Snapshots DO NOT replace good backups.
The snapshots give you a chance to revert back to an earlier state if something goes wrong, say during an upgrade. Snapshots take system memory, system state and disk changes and writes them to a forked VM file. With FileMaker files hosted through server, there is no way to totally ensure that your snapshot collected all data (due to caching, memory, tmp files, unflushed data from workstations). You should stop the service, perform the snapshot and start it again. That will make sure all changes are commited to the disk state.
On my virtualized servers, I run snapshots when I do upgrades, I rely on those to roll back if something should happen during an upgrade. I do not use them as a disaster recovery option for the long term. I still have a backup software that runs, as well as a separate backup that handles just the FileMaker files.
kev@mullinsmail.com on February 23rd, 2010
Thanks Angelo for the great meeting. I looked into the XenApp dev license and I am a little confused. When I pick the machine to install it on, how is it that I would use that XenApp. Am I able to connect to that server via the web or are there other ways that I connect to it?
Thanks again for a great meeting.
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Jim McNeely on February 18th, 2010
How does FM server 10 do in a Virtual machine, including taking snapshots of the running machine? Does anyone have experience with this?