CoCreate Manager Server 2008 (16.00E) Platform Support

Database Server Sizing

Operating System Service Packs, Patches, and Hot Fixes

1. CoCreate releases software tested on the latest patch level available at time of the release.
2. In general, CoCreate system requirement specifications define a minimum service pack or patch level and expect its software products to not be affected by more recent operating system patches issued by Microsoft. Correct functioning on new patches issued by Microsoft cannot be guaranteed though. CoCreate's response to potential incompatibilities of this nature is to attempt the removal of those incompatibilities as timely as possible in one of the next patch, service pack or major releases of our products.

Schema and Release Support

The schema support diagram looks like this:

Current client releases are supported with the current server release and with all server and schema releases as old as the previous major release. Previous client releases are not supported with the current server release.

Job Spooler / Job Server Compatibility

If the Job Spooler detects older Job Servers, it marks them as "Incompatible" in the CoCreate Model Manager (or CoCreate Drawing Manager) Admin panel. Job Spooler requires Job Server.

The Job Server requires CoCreate Modeling 2008 or CoCreate Drafting 2008.

CoCreate Design Data Management

CoCreate Design Data Management 2008 supports the same configurations as CoCreate Manager Server 2008 except that integrations to CoCreate Modeling and CoCreate Drafting are only available for the Windows client platforms.

CoCreate Modeling / CoCreate Design Data Management

CoCreate Drafting / CoCreate Design Data Management

CoCreate Design Data Access (Teamwork Web Access)

NOTE :

• CoCreate Drafting and CoCreate Modeling specific functionality is only supported on WIN32
• CoCreate 2D Access is also supported (same platform as CoCreate Drafting)

CoCreate Model Manager

CoCreate Modeling / CoCreate Model Manager

CoCreate Drawing Manager

CoCreate Drafting / CoCreate Drawing Manager

Locale Independent

Database Servers

Microsoft does not recommend that customers deploy business critical servers (like data management) on their desktop operating systems (for example Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional, etc.). Customers should deploy business critical servers on the Microsoft server operating systems (e.g. Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition). CoCreate has found severe scalability limits when using desktop operating systems for servers.

Language and database compatibility

The only client that can connect to a Japanese language database is a Japanese language client. Japanese clients can connect to UTF-8 databases because a UTF-8 database can represent Japanese characters.
1 = Japanese CoCreate Model Manager running on a non-Japanese operating system is not supported with a non-Unicode database.

Other Servers

CoCreate Manager Server Client

Libraries

SAP Process Adapter, release 16.00E

License Requirements

¹ Includes 2 licenses. Both licenses are pulled when you start CoCreate Model Manager: One is specifically for CoCreate Model Manager, and one is reserved for running CoCreate Drawing Manager concurrently on the same computer. When run concurrently, CoCreate Drawing Manager will not pull an additional license.

CoCreate Model Manager (within CoCreate Modeling or 3D Access) and CoCreate Model Manager Standalone may run on the same computer at the same time. CoCreate Model Manager (within CoCreate Modeling or 3D Access) and CoCreate Drawing Manager may run on the same computer at the same time.

Two copies of CoCreate Model Manager (either within CoCreate Modeling or within 3D Access) are NOT SUPPORTED running on the same computer at the same time. Two copies of CoCreate Model Manager Standalone are NOT SUPPORTED running on the same computer at the same time.

Two copies of CoCreate Drawing Manager are NOT SUPPORTED running on the same computer at the same time. Two copies of CoCreate Drawing Manager Standalone are NOT SUPPORTED running on the same computer at the same time.

The number of Web Services licenses available is derived from the number of CoCreate Model Manager, CoCreate Drawing Manager, and Project Data Manager licenses configured in the CoCreate License Server.

Items that do not need licenses

• Database Server
• File Server
• Software distribution Server
• Web Access Server
• Workflow Designer

License Bundles

CoCreate CoCreate Model Manager licenses also enable CoCreate Drawing Manager when CoCreate Drawing Manager is run on the same computer as CoCreate Model Manager. This license bundle is enabled by setting an environment variable before the user starts CoCreate Drafting, or by setting the same variable in the me10.ini file. That variable is:

MEBUNDLEKEY=1

CoCreate Drawing Manager will not use a license bundle when CoCreate Drafting is started with -bundlekey as a command line argument. It will only use a license bundle if MEBUNDLEKEY=1 is set in the environment or in the me10.ini file.

CoCreate License Server Information

Release Requirements:

A release compatibility check is performed between the application and the license server. You will receive an error message if the license server release number is less than the application release number, and the license(s) will not be granted. Therefore the software application cannot be used.

In summary the following condition must be fulfilled for every application:

Major Release(License Server)  [EQUAL or GREATER]  Major Release(Application)

When you upgrade Manager Server to 2008, you must upgrade to the CoCreate License Server 2008 or later.

Blocked Licenses:

Example:

• Licenses LAx on host HA are moved (by the license exchange process) to host HB and are then called License LBx.
• Now licenses LAx are no longer valid licenses.
• The license administrator is responsible to permanently remove all licenses LAx from the active license configuration and has to make sure that from now on all these licenses can never be used again.
• The licenses LAx are marked as "blocked" in the CoCreate License Database.
• A license exchange request on any set of these licenses LAx is not permitted.

If such invalid licenses are found in an active license configuration the License Server will select and disable them.
Attention: The license administrator has to remove such licenses from the active license configuration to have a valid license configuration.

Oracle's Support Status for VMWare - 17 June 2007

Purpose

Scope & Application

Support Status for VMware Virtualized Environments

Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware virtualized environments. Oracle Support will provide support for Oracle products when running on VMware in the following manner: Oracle will only provide support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running on VMware.

If a problem is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support will recommend the appropriate solution on the native OS. If that solution does not work in the VMware virtualized environment, the customer will be referred to VMware for support. When the customer can demonstrate that the Oracle solution does not work when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required.

If the problem is determined not to be a known Oracle issue, we will refer the customer to VMware for support. When the customer can demonstrate that the issue occurs when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required.

Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMWare, but use of Oracle products in the RAC environment is specifically not supported. This is noted because some Oracle product demonstrations have been conducted in a RAC environment using VMware. These are demonstrations only and not certified for use by customers.