So I’ve been working with BIM9 for the last couple of months setting up our Private BIM Cloud. The process was daunting throughout but having an extremely knowledgeable and patient installer made a world of difference in getting us up and running quickly and thoroughly.
With the constant development of CAD software hardware upgrade cycles are and will continue to be a hot topic. So in researching the best possible upgrade path for today and for the not so distant future finding a simple way to upgrade, deploy, manage and troubleshoot hardware/software is of vital importance for anyone having to deal with CAD/IT on a daily basis.
Building a private building computer was relatively straight forward with the guidance and the tested components from BIM9. Software setup was more involved from installing the OS, setting up the virtual machines and tying the computer to our domain. Setting up the backbone domain was definitely one of the most involved parts but once that was up and running adding the cloud computers became relatively fast. Managing virtual workstations from one single location makes installing, updating and troubleshooting extremely easy.
So far everything seems to be working well and managing twenty workstations is definitely a good bit easier nowadays.