Greetings,
"Can we use a 64-Bit EMSRV 7.2.x to manage our VA 8.6.2 repositories and/or 32-Bit VA 9.x repositories? Or do we need a 32-Bit EMSRV for 32-Bit VA repositories."
- The internal layout of a repository is not sensitive to
32/64-bitness.
- The communications between a 32/64-bit image and the EMSRV server via socket protocol is not sensitive to 32/64-bitness.
- The communications between a 32/64-bit image and a repository via FILE I/O is not sensitive to 32/64-bitness.
- Therefore, yes...you may use any mixture of 32/64-bit clients to connect to any 32/64-bit EMSRV instance (or direct via FILE I/O) that can manage any ENVY repository.
"Is there a performance increase to expect concerning WAN performance?"
- No. This is a ENVY protocol issue. Given the granularity of messages in the protocol along with the expected levels of repository view consistency at any time in the browsers, its not really a possibility to achieve this in any satisfying way over WAN without a dramatic redesign of the ENVY protocol and usage in the image.
- Today, there isn't really a VCS that attempts this at the WAN level the way ENVY would. Everyone expects to be working locally and reconciling differences with some remote repository.
- We (and many of our customers) do the same where we work locally over FILE I/O in our own ENVY repository. We then push to a remote Instantiations repository.
- Remote logins "near" emsrv is still a recommended option if you are not going to be using our Tonel/Git support, which anyone working with distributed teams should be considering.
Tonel/Git
- We have more and more customers joining us in this Instantiations-sponsored project providing Git support and integration with VAST.
- Its designed to augment, not replace, ENVY. Teams can use this to facilitate distributed workflows and integrate with existing tooling like CI and so on.
- We will be having a supported feature for this coming to VAST 2021.
Other team members who work directly on Tonel/Git monitor this forum and can answer any questions you may have concerning it.
- Seth