Hi Vince, 

I virtualised by conversion of a physical box to a virtual server using VMware converter to try and improve the speed.  While everything was smooth & successful and upgraded the hardware spec of the machine to now 8 cores, 32GB memory, and 1TB SSD raid 1 I did not find the speed increase to that noticable if at all. 

It is certainly useful to have it virtualised as you can snapshot on upgrades and other normal virtual server benefits but if I had my time again which will be over the xmas holidys I would start a new virtual machine from scratch and make your self a new Sage virtual server. After some reading, a converted physical machine will never perform as well as freshly installed native virtual machine due to (in very simple terms) leftover software drivers and configurations that want to do stuff but cant any more.

I would also try to have more than a raid 1 (2 disks mirrored) setup on your disks as well as the more disks that have data accross them the quicker the machine will be able to return your data and is it safer for disk failure too.

Hi Vince, 

I virtualised by conversion of a physical box to a virtual server using VMware converter to try and improve the speed.  While everything was smooth & successful and upgraded the hardware spec of the machine to now 8 cores, 32GB memory, and 1TB SSD raid 1 I did not find the speed increase to that noticable if at all. 

It is certainly useful to have it virtualised as you can snapshot on upgrades and other normal virtual server benefits but if I had my time again which will be over the xmas holidys I would start a new virtual machine from scratch and make your self a new Sage virtual server. After some reading, a converted physical machine will never perform as well as freshly installed native virtual machine due to (in very simple terms) leftover software drivers and configurations that want to do stuff but cant any more.

I would also try to have more than a raid 1 (2 disks mirrored) setup on your disks as well as the more disks that have data accross them the quicker the machine will be able to return your data and is it safer for disk failure too.

JClayton,

I agree, we will be setting up a new Sage server as a VM on VMware as a Win Server 2019, and not converting over from an old Sage server. Also a new disk array in a Raid 10, new switches, to try and gain as much speed from Sage 300 CRE, which we have found very laggy due to the underlying technology still being used. It is difficult to get a 32bit app to perform like a 64bit app and going the VM route seems to be one of the only ways to do it.