Sage 100

I have a client considering hosting Sage 100 Advanced in Azure. Anyone have experience comments / thoughts on this? Thx.

If you move forward, please post information regarding your progress and experience. Inquiring minds want to know - and there are more than 90 of them!

HI John. i have a client currently on Citrix (very large organization) who are would like to move all systems off of Citrix to Azure...this includes their SAGE100 Std. Have you implemented in Azure ?

i would like to know as well.

Our network group is in process of full certification (if that's what is required) and soon after that we will start doing some testing with Sage 100. From what I have been told so far, it offers similar capabilities as Citrix, but with more flexibility. It also seems to be priced to compete with AWS. I'll try to move this along, so we can post some results.

Our client ended up not moving to Azure and continue to host on premise.

My company initially chose to host several 3-5 MAS clients in Azure. To our surprise, the Azure servers shut down ""randomly"" or at least st some regular intervals. Obviously, the customers were kicked out of MAS during the shutdown. We were told that we needed to use applications where they could fail over during the reboots. We are moving the first MAS customer over to AWS next week although we have been testing in AWS for a month now. Things are much more stable in AWS from what I am told by my IT manager. I am AWS all the way.

@CooperBlack please update us on your experience with AWS. Acumatica moved there SaaS platform from Azure to AWS a few years ago. The platform was more mature and provided greater throughput. There are some areas we are always looking for innovation. On something like hosted environments, I think tried and true is preferable.

The Azure FAQ on-line specifically addresses planned (for maintenance) and unplanned restarts of VMs. Dealing with planned restarts should not be an issue. Unplanned restarts may occur when serious hardware problems are detected, which would probably create a data issue anyway. Azure automatically migrates the VM to a healthy host and restarts the VM in that case. The recommendation from Microsoft is the following: To provide redundancy, put two or more similarly configured VMs in the same availability set. This helps ensure at least one VM is available during planned or unplanned maintenance. Azure guarantees certain levels of VM availability for this configuration. We have not tested any of this, but it appears to me that Microsoft has carefully considered what may occur and how to deal with these events. Sage has not provided failover within the MAS application, so the VM approach is really the only practical solution. Perhaps I do not understand all the technical issues involved, but I am interested in finding reasonable resolutions for Azure.

The response from @ChristopherWhite in our engineering group: If you don't manage the Azure server the way you would a regular server, it will auto-reboot for patches, etc. the way a normal box would. There were also some issues in 2013 through mid 2015 where patching the Azure host server would bounce the VM's as well. Applications with built-in redundancy didn't really notice or care about this, but single-server apps did. In the last year or so Microsoft has been able to patch the hosts without rebooting the VM's except in rare cases for which they publish a maintenance notice.

We have a client that self-deployed on Azure. They seem to have a lot of resource issues but I think it is a financial constraint of not procure additional cloud resources. Fairly good sized with 30+ users @RobNeal Any comments?

MyHostedDSD is on AWS. They manage the users, licensing, configuration, etc. George even does the installation of software to make sure it has all necessary permissions. We have ultra light management duties and can concentrate on the applications. Environments are replicated to 2 AWS sites and restart 1am every day. Highly recommend.

I second @BobPfahnl recommendation. The MyHostedDSD group is great to work with and has engineered the AWS interface and structure to optimal performance, it is truly amazing. @GeorgeKhairallah and @RobertEppele are both 90 Minders another plus!

Of course I-BN has been hosting since 1999 and have a cloud specifically designed for Sage hosting. We work with all add-ons and numerous partners.

@GaryFeldman is absolutely the pioneer in the hosting world for Sage 100, and we have worked with him too!! An excellent solution as well.