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Hello TM1 guys,

Does anyone have experienced using TM1 9.1.x with a Windows Server 2003 Itanium based Server? This version Is widely used? I know is a more expensive technology, but it is worth?

Thanks,

Hi,

I don't have personal experience, though at least one of our clients run on an Itanium-based server at the moment. One word of caution: there will be no Itanium-specific versions after TM1 9.4. From the 9.4 notes:

Windows Itanium Platform Support
The TM1 9.4.x series will be the last versions of TM1 that support the Windows Itanium platform.

To me, that says you shouldn't go down the Itanium road, unless you have some existing hardware that you want to use while you're on TM1 9.1 or TM1 9.4. It is definitely not a long-term strategy based on the above statement.

Regards,
Mike

No it's not worth it. Itanium is an evolutionary dead-end and in my experience TM1 on Itanium x64 runs far slower than on Windows x64.

It filled a niche when Win x64 was not widely available or supported but is now basically redundant.

Hi,

We've a customer running 4 Itanium-2 servers. When moved the customer to this platform end 2004 / beginning 2005 this was the best solution for the customer (running a model with some large cubes, I think the biggest single cube nowadays measures about 12 Gb in RAM). But now that the machines have reached their economic end of life we're going to move the customer to x64.
In my opinion x64 would be preferable now above Itanium even if Itanium had a future as a platform for TM1. The x64 platform is more cost-effective and more efficient with resources (power consumption / heat production / airco requirements for an Itanium server is worse opposed to a x64 machine). Also within most IT organisations Itanium is an 'odd' platform and usually 'odd' can be exchanged with 'much more expensive'.

Michel