Tm1 on Amazon AWS

[danielpeeroo]

Hi All

I'm hoping some of you can give us some insight into Tm1 working on an Amazon ECS box for a production system with 150 users.

Our IT department have asked us if our TM1 Servers can be moved to AWS. Currently we have our Dev, UAT and Production servers in one of our data centres and so response time and performance are very good. Our current servers are on 9.5.2 but we are in the process of upgrading to 10.2.2.

Now I have used TM1 on AWS before for some Dev and UAT work where we would remote onto the machine to do the development but that was about it. I have been looking through the forums and various useful Tm1 sites but I cant find much on this subject or even a mention of someone using it for their production systems but maybe someone can point me in the right direction or give some experience on the subject.

Thanks

Dan

[tomok]

I have used AWS to house a development TM1 instance but never production. However, as long as you are mindful of all the issues of using TM1 in a wide-area networking environment then I see no reason why it couldn't be done in production. When you purchase the cloud version of TM1 from IBM you are pretty much getting the same thing.

[RJ!]

Per what Tomok said, your pretty much restricting yourself to TM1Web + CAFE to get any decent performance out of TM1.
Perspectives & Architect can be close to unusable.

[danielpeeroo]

Thanks for your responses guys.

It's pretty much what I thought that by using AWS we wouldn't have the same client/server scenario we have now and we'd probably have to use CAFE as our primary excel application. As our existing client base have only ever used Perspectives, to try and replace it would be a big ask and would require further client training and far more testing than we would usually have to do for a server hardware change. It may be the direction we eventually go but I think Short Term we would stay in our current set-up.

However I think we will still be asked to try AWS as that's our companies goal, to get everything into Amazon so I'll keep you posted on anything we learn or find when we get to test it.

Thanks again for your help

Dan

[tomok]

It's pretty much what I thought that by using AWS we wouldn't have the same client/server scenario we have now and we'd probably have to use CAFE as our primary excel application.

Not necessarily. Just like you can run TM1 on AWS, so could you Citrix/RD/Any other RD like tool and run Perspectives from that image. I'm pretty sure you can have your AWS images run in the same location so bandwidth between TM1 and RD would not be an issue.

[RJ!]

Just be carefull with CAFE, we have reported a bug to IBM regarding the Log Off function not working.
We'd eventually get a REST request to the server from a "zombie" user which would lock up the service.

An APAR has been raised and fingers crossed its resolved in the next fix pack.