Teams with Servers

[ecchorobotics]

We used Vault this year running on a custom built server. It is running Windows Server 2008 with an i7 quad core and a 1 TB HDD.

You have to download the Vault Server because the installation of Inventor only gives you the Vault Client.

It's fairly easy to set up but some things get complicated. Vault uses IIS to communicate through the network. We forwarded port 80 on our router to open Vault up to people outside of our warehouse. Because it's an IP address with no website associated with it, I was able to connect to vault from anywhere: my house, school, library, anywhere with Internet.

Vault was extremely useful for keeping track of who's working on a part by checking in/ checking out parts or assemblies. It saves old versions and each time you make a change, it shows up in a log in its properties. It is slightly frustrating sometimes because if you drop connection while working it would frequently crash. But assuming you were hard wired or simply had a solid connection, it's great to have, especially when working in a team.

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by ecchorobotics

We used Vault this year running on a custom built server. It is running Windows Server 2008 with an i7 quad core and a 1 TB HDD.

You have to download the Vault Server because the installation of Inventor only gives you the Vault Client.

It's fairly easy to set up but some things get complicated. Vault uses IIS to communicate through the network. We forwarded port 80 on our router to open Vault up to people outside of our warehouse. Because it's an IP address with no website associated with it, I was able to connect to vault from anywhere: my house, school, library, anywhere with Internet.

Vault was extremely useful for keeping track of who's working on a part by checking in/ checking out parts or assemblies. It saves old versions and each time you make a change, it shows up in a log in its properties. It is slightly frustrating sometimes because if you drop connection while working it would frequently crash. But assuming you were hard wired or simply had a solid connection, it's great to have, especially when working in a team.

Thank you very, very much for posting this link. I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of Vault Server for a very long time. Is there any chance that you have a link for the 2013 version? Also, is there an activation code that will be needed?

[ecchorobotics]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Thank you very, very much for posting this link. I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of Vault Server for a very long time. Is there any chance that you have a link for the 2013 version? Also, is there an activation code that will be needed?

You're very welcome. I'm still looking for the 2013 version myself but as soon as I find it I will post it here.

Also, you do not need an activation code or serial number for Vault Server.

[Isaac501]

Our sponsor is a major Internet Infrastruction-as-a-Service company, so they provide us with servers for our website and other purposes. They aren't inside the school's network, so they aren't limited by restricted access.

I personally use Linode at $20/month, and it serves all my web, dns, email and other needs.

[sanddrag]

Well, I got the server done and installed. It's a 2U half-depth Rackable Systems C2004 with twin Xeon 5150 Dual Core processors at 2.66GHz and 8GB of DDR2 RAM. I have four 1TB SATA drives in it on a ZFS filesystem in RAIDZ configuration under FreeNAS as the OS. FreeNAS is not quite as fully-featured and refined as I'd like it to be, but it's a good simple easy to use system that should be fairly reliable. It's working rather well. FreeNAS does has several nice features as opposed to other options. I have under $400 into the whole thing including tax and shipping, and that does include new drives (on sale/coupon). The CPUs are a bit overkill for just NAS, but I got the system at a good price. I'm pretty happy.

The next thing I want to look at is getting ahold of Vault server 2013 and experimenting with that.