Supporting Work in Virtual Environments

Foresight Analytics Platform desktop and web applications support work in various virtual environments. Installation in virtual environments is identical to desktop application, web application, or BI server installation.

Supported virtual environments:

Hyper-V.
VMware.
VirtualBox.
Docker.
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (previously known as XenApp and XenDesktop).
Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).
zVIRT.

Check supported OS and DBMS to use with virtual environments on virtual environment manufacturer websites.

When planning and deploying an application, the virtualization server administrator must use administrator guides offered by corresponding virtualization system vendors.

When working with Foresight Analytics Platform in virtual environments, activation must be executed by means of license server. Licenses are searched via the LSHOST, LSFORCEHOST system variables and registry.

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops or Microsoft Azure RemoteApp virtual environments can be offered to users as software as a service (SaaS) based on Foresight Analytics Platform.

Virtual environment Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) can be used for preparation and delivery of the Foresight Analytics Platform desktop version or Foresight Analytics Platform based ready solutions as virtual packages. When working with Microsoft Application Virtualization, use only Reg-free COM registration distribution files.

A virtual package is deployed on user computers and allows for working with Foresight Analytics Platform via front end of virtual environment. The use of virtual packages makes the installation process of Foresight Analytics Platform easier because all required operations are executed on allocated server of virtual environment. Further deployment and access permission setup is executed via Active Directory.