Virtual Machines

BOXI is certified to run under VMWare. There are significant advantages to running BOXI on a virtual machine (VM):

Running BOXI on a VM allows flexibility when allocating resources. This is very useful because it is extremely difficult to estimate sizing requirements accurately for an ad-hoc reporting system.
VM snapshots can also be used in disaster recovery scenarios (a clean CA Business Intelligence installation can take several hours to run.)
By isolating BOXI’s complex application stack from other applications, you reduce the risk of ‘application collisions’ (for example, over port numbers). In turn, this reduces potential complexities for support staff.
BOXI is resource hungry. Therefore, you must not install a production BOXI system on a production iConsole server. However, you could run BOXI and the iConsole within a resource-governed VM on a large capacity shared host server.