Virtualization

Hi Tekabi,

In the following link, you can find all info about virtualization. You can find this FAQ via topic "PCS7 Complete Overview" under the PCS7 Complete Overview link.

PCS7 Virtualization

If you want to use VM14 for testing purposes or even temporary development of a project, you can use without problems...I mean that you can engineer a project, but when it is running in the plant, you have a dedicated ES station according to the specifications. VMware is not released.

However, if you want to virtualize a plant, you cannot use (at least it is not released) VM14 or any other VM workstation.

You need to use vSphere V5.5 (for PCS7 V8.1 SP1). The difference between VMworkstation and vSphere is that vSphere does not have an host OS. You are working directly on the hardware layer. With VMworkstation, you always have a host OS and a guestOS. 

There are restrictions when using virtualized systems, you can find all info in the link above.

If you have more questions, please let us know.