Thursday, February 22, 2018

Ajera - Running Two Database Instances Onsite

Ajera and other cloud based vendors would love for you to host you data with them in the cloud.  This can be a great move for a small office, but as you grow, you weigh cloud vs onsite costs and on site kicks in as less expensive quite a few times.

We have one client that would like to host another database for a recently purchased company which needs to be completely separate from the existing Ajera installation.

Ajera (after numerous emails and discussions) does not like two DB instances on the same network. They feel data can get corrupted.

Well our solution will be the following:

-Create another VM strictly for the newly acquired company and install Ajera. Our existing Ajera only VM just hums no issues for 3+ yrs.
-Give the VM the required system specs.
 -Create a new HyperV virtual switch with a VLAN tag of 5.
-Create a new subnet.
-Assign the VM an IP of the new subnet.
-Sonicwall Create a new VLAN network interface  VLAN tag 5 for the subnet .
-We can add the new subnet to an old machine lying around to keep nice and cozy for Ajera.

And we think that should cover it and make Ajera happy as the last email they didn't see an issue with this setup. 

The user will be accessing this new subnet/VM onsite therefore no SSL cert will be needed.

We will keep you posted of developments.

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