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Cloud Hosted Environment Integrated Execution Systems

Omied Sadeghi Information Manager and Execution Systems Architect

Cloud Systems Architecture

SmartPlant Enterprise

Material

EDMS SAP

Primavera

Host area contains all the SmartPlant Enterprise solutions with Citrix and Database Servers



Material

EDMS SAP

Primavera

Contractors areas contain Licenses Server s, EDMS Servers, S3D Servers and File managers



Material

EDMS SAP

Primavera

Client area for SAP Plant Maintenance and Material Management Modules with SPF & MOC



Material

EDMS SAP

Primavera

Fluor area contains Material Manager (MatMan) and Document Manager (POL) databases



Material

EDMS SAP

Primavera

Integration layers for SmartPlant Enterprise, Material, EDMS, SAP and Primavera Data

Cloud Advanced Monitoring

Advanced Monitoring logs each users – Initial Software, login time, Computer ID and Idle Time


Advanced Monitoring logs each users – System Stress, CPU, Memory and Processor usage


Advanced Monitoring logs each users – Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) Latency to

track each users Citrix packet transfer rates and identify Citrix performance issues


Advanced Monitoring logs each users – I/O read Operations Per Second (IOPS) to determine

volume of meta data over Citrix to identify Virtual Privet Network (VPN) throughput issues

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November Host Sessions 11/3/2014 to 11/28/2014

SPI

Performance Graphs show the number of users per SmartPlant Application at any given time

SmartPlant Instrumentation Optimizing Citrix Delivery

Client

Contracts

Cost Contractors

Confidentiality

Business Factors The Five C’s

Business Factors affecting the use of a cloud environment for software distribution (The 5 C’s)

Client – the client requirement for a completely integrated environment

Contracts – all parties had to sign contracts defining their agreement to use cloud services

Cost – hardware costs were minimal compared to software Licensing costs

Contractors – the unique needs of each contractor had to be considered

Confidentiality – the internet distribution had to meet ridged security requirements

Performance

Printing

Process PBS/PAU

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Design Factors The Five P’s

Design Factors affecting the use of a cloud environment for software distribution (The P C’s)

Performance – the issues of speed and connections over Citrix had to be addressed

Printing – the ability of the users to print and save files was optimized

Process – hardware costs were minimal compared to software Licensing costs

PBS/PAU – the unique needs of each contractor had to be considered

Productivity – configuration of SPI and Citrix were per Intergraph’s Thin Client instructions

White Paper SmartPlant Instrumentation

Optimizing SmartPlant®

Instrumentation Delivery through Citrix

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