ProjectWise DFT + Steelhead versus Panzura GFS ?

Hi Dominic,

Panzura will work as a storage area because you can have a never ending cloud based storage. As far as using Panzura in place of the caching servers, this will not work and is not recommended by Bentley. The main problem here is that if you link your caching server location with your main storage area with Panzura devices then you run the risk of data loss. Specifically because the caching servers purge data and if not configured correctly then when the caching server purges the data on the local Panzura device it will get replicated up to your main storage area and purge data there. Since PW has no knowledge of Panzura when Panzura deletes the files it will leave orphan records in the db.

HTH,
Marty

Hi Marty,

How about PW without any caching servers?

PW would manage the checking in/out of the files and Panzura would deal with global file locking etc.

Regards

Dominic

How would you have system set up?

Not sure. I understand that Panzura works by storing the master copy of the data on the cloud. I suppose that this would be provided by Azure. So the datastore would be on the cloud and replicated at the remote offices using Panzura controllers? PW would be set up as if all the clients were co-located in the same building / LAN.... let's say in London. The remote offices would access the datastore using PW as if the datastore Integration Server were local on the LAN.

Not sure. I understand that Panzura works by storing the master copy of the data on the cloud. I suppose that this would be provided by Azure. So the datastore would be on the cloud and replicated at the remote offices using Panzura controllers? PW would be set up as if all the clients were co-located in the same building / LAN.... let's say in London. The remote offices would access the datastore using PW as if the datastore Integration Server were local on the LAN.

That is not something we would recommend. The biggest reason is because PW is not aware of what Panzura is doing so any file locking Panzura does PW would not have control over and could cause issues. Why not just use our own caching servers?