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Just want to tap off your experience regarding upgrades. I am starting my planning to upgrade to 2010 R2 from v10. I did the upgrade from v8 to v10 in 2008. I know 2012 may be out end of this year or next, but given a 6 month first SP patch, I don’t want to wait that long for the next upgrade for the site. Anyway, I currently run with no prob on a dual 2.0 Ghz Xeon quad-core and 4 GB ram, but it is now out of warranty. Current OS is 2003 Std with 2005 SQL Std. I will be going to another dual-quad but thinking at least 8 GB ram and it will be on 2008 R2 Std Server and SQL. I am also doing 3 mirror drive pairs @ 300GB each 15K rpm. Should be more than enough room. Those will be on a Dell PERC H700 RAID card with 512MB cache. For the small 22 licenses, I would expect that to be more than enough capacity but wanted to see what you think. Also know issues with going 64bit for this for OS or SQL. Our workstations are all 32bit Win7, 4GB RAM (3.2~ usable).
Allen,
We have done a number of upgrades this year to a similar configuration – GP 2010 R2, Windows Server 2008 Standard R2 64-bit, SQL 2008 R2. No known issues that we have seen. Desktops being 32-bit is no problem. The server spec sounds good, we typically buy/sell Dell as well, so I know they work well with GP.
The only thing I might question is the drive configuration – a RAID 5 or 10 is usually recommended for SQL, unless I misunderstood what you meant by ‘mirror drive pairs’. For 22 users you should be fine with 8GB RAM, and with 64-bit and any of the Dell servers you will be able to add more RAM easily if you need to in the future. If you are looking to do this soon, plan to wait a while for the server (maybe 4 weeks instead of the usual 1), the 300GB 15k drives from Dell seem to be one of the models impacted by a hard drive shortage they expect to continue until about April.
-Victoria
So I have been thinking about your comments on RAID configuration. It comes down to what is most important I guess between performance gains from separation of tasks to performance gains from RAID5 over RAID1. With the Dell server, I have but 6 drive slots (3″ 15K rpm) available in the current configuration. I would have to do a different model to go above that with 2.5″ 10K rpm SAS drives. Drive performance goes down slightly with the 2.5s compared to the 3″. Now, all of this is on the same RAID card, but the drives themselves will be tasked differently. Plan is 2 drives mirrored for OS to separate it. Then I will have 2 drives mirrored for the transaction logs, and 2 drives mirrored for the database. This way logs and data are not on the same and the type of activity is different and should theoretically not have the drive arm bouncing between the different activity types. So, this separates for better recovery options and should aid performance by separation of the duties of the drive set. Now, I do acknowledge that RAID5 has faster read capability than RAID1 but generally has been stated for slower write performance. My current config uses this 3 mirrors methodology and has been ok. I do wonder at times though if it would be faster otherwise, but as stated, to have 3 drive arrays I would have to go to the 2.5′s and do 2 mirrors and either a second mirror for logs and 4 disk R5 for database (given more drives in R5 = faster read) or do 2 R5 arrays with 3 drives each. The 2.5″ drive option allows for 8 drives. But that also significantly increases my cost as the equivalent drives in capacity/performance are more than double that of the 3″ drives. I am unsure if my performance gained will be noticed for the money spent. Anyway, short of doing both and bench marking, I am somewhat guessing anyway. You know?
Allen,
Let me just start out by saying that this particular question is not something I am an expert in, I am much more proficient in the GP application and data, not so much the hardware aspect of it. I would consider posting a question on some of the GP forums about it or maybe even a SQL forum.
That said, realistically I don’t know if anyone can give you a definite answer on this without knowing more about your SQL usage because it should really depend on the type of activity you have. For example, if there is a lot more inquiry or report generation, then read is much more important. On the other hand, if you import a lot of data and have a high volume of transactions in general, write may be more important.
For what it’s worth, we have not had any issues with a RAID 1/RAID 5 (2 drives/4 drives) configuration. I can’t think of a single server I personally have worked on that has a 3 sets of mirrored drives. Again, just sharing what my experience has been, not saying it’s wrong. I would also think that the faster drives are more important for SQL Server, so I would go with 15k over 10k if possible. Another consideration would be the controller – I believe you can increase the cache to 1GB for not so much more on the H700.
-Victoria
Hi Victoria,
Is there any news or any idea when a GP 2012 is coming out? thanks!
Jeff,
Not sure what the actual name will be, but the latest roadmap I saw says 2012-2013 for the next GP version. I have not seen any specific dates yet.
-Victoria
Hi Victoria,
I try to find the upgrade path for GP2010R2, unfortunately, many articles or MS just mentioned the upgrade path for GP2010 only. Could I upgrade a client with lastest GP9 service pack (build 388) to GP2010R2?
thanks!
JL
Hi JL,
Since R2 is really just SP 2, I am not sure if you will see it listed separately in the documentation. Are you able to get to the GP 2010 Update Paths link on my GP 2010 Resources page? That lists the following for GP 9.00.0388 as the minimum required: “2011 US Payroll Round 2 Tax Update or later (KB 2477921 – Version 11.00.1667 – English)”.
Of course the only way to be sure is to either ask Microsoft support or try it.
-Victoria
Hi Victoria,
Thanks a lot!
Regards,
JL
Hi Victoria
Please
In smartlist GP 2010, in Purchasing, Vendors, Vendor Transactions, i cannot see payment work transactions, has smartlist 2010 changed from smarlist 10?
Or there is a missing configuration so I can see work transactions in smartlist?
Thanks a lot
FAC,
I think this is the case out-of-the-box in any version of GP, no unposted Payables payments will show in SmartList.
Just to confirm – in my (US) installation, the SmartList is called Payables Transactions – is that the one you mean?
-Victoria
Thanks and sorry for bothering you, Victoria, my mistake.
I guess I missed my morning cup of cofee to wake my GP neurons up hehe, i forgot only unposted Invoice Payables are shown in Payables Transactions in smartlist.
Thanks a lot
Hi Victoria,
Just curious, the GP 2010 whats new document states for IV “Go To navigation added. If you’re using the Available To Promise (ATP) feature in Inventory Control, you can click the Go To button in the Items window to open the Inventory Available to Promise Inquiry window.”. I cannot seem to see this available on the Item Maintenance window. Has you seen this feature available in GP 2010? i have ATP available on my test GP 2010 but i dot not see this new feature. Is there a setting to add this?
Jeff,
The critical part is that the document says “Items window”, not “Item Maintenance window”. The Items window is the window that comes up when you click the looking glass icon next to the Item Number. There, on my install of GP 2010, I see the Go To button and it takes me to the Inventory Available to Promise Inquiry window.
The nice part about this being on the Items window is that it’s accessible anywhere that you have an Item Number field with a lookup button.
-Victoria
Thanks Victoria!
I spent hours looking and finding a more detailed info in documentations for this one and it was just under my nose
thank you for pointing me to the right direction.
- Jeff
Hi Victoria,
I was wonder if you had any good resources for MRP in GP 2010. I have been asked to import our sales deparments forcast. After converting it from the stone tablets that sales uses because they think Excel is an energy drink!!!
Thanks
Vic
Hi Vic,
Sorry, I do not have any resources for MRP.
-Victoria
Hi Vic,
Am customizing an receivables report (Invoice) but am not getting how to inlude the amount in words.
Any help from you and members would be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Charles
Charles,
Are you using Reports Writer? If so, you may want to take a look at this blog post by David Musgrave .
-Victoria
Vic,
Thanks alot for your quick response.Yeah am using Report writter. Let me try what Daivd suggested and see how it goes.
Asante sana.
Hi Victoria,
I have GP2010 installed on a Test environment so I play around. I notice that within Cash Receipt module, there’s no ‘Additional menu’ for add-ons application. Did I miss anything? Could you kindly advise.
Best Regards,
Nikki
Hi Nikki,
The Additional menu only shows up when required. The ‘out-of-the-box’ Cash Receipts Entry window does not have an Additional menu. If you’re comparing it to another version that does, what is on that menu? Is there a 3rd party product or customization that is not installed on your GP 2010?
-Victoria
I successfully downloaded the new media and successfully installed at a test server. Regarding the download, what would be the differences if any with the one on-coming in the CD ?As i have ordered one and am waiting.
I also realized that unlike the previous versions it does not specify whether it’s a server or client platform i.e. the earlier versions would allow you to choose either Server of Client check boxes during installation.
I would appreciate more information regarding the above.
Regards,
Charles
Hi Charles,
I do not have the GP 2010 CD (most likely it will be a DVD), but I would not expect there to be any difference from the download. Unlike most other Microsoft software, GP licensing is not tied to the media, at least for now, so the only thing I can think of is that there may be an autorun function, which is really not a big value add. I know some companies still like to have have physical media for all software, but I think having to pay additionally for it will start being a deterrent to many.
Also, one nice feature of the downloads is that MS seems to be posting them up with the SP included pretty quickly – so there is already a GP 2010 with SP 1 download available. I am not sure how quickly the DVDs / CDs will catch up to that.
As you have noticed, there is no longer a Server/Client option during the install of GP 2010. Since the only difference between these was an additional folder that got installed with tools and since there was so much confusion generated by not being able to create new GP companies from computers where only the Client install was performed for older versions, it looks like Microsoft has taken that choice out of the installation options and now it’s the same install everywhere. I personally think this is a great idea.
Hope that helps,
-Victoria