A blog entry wondering about whether something like that is possible prompted me to post this.
I believe we are the very first outfit to actually have implemented a proof of concept vanilla install of a Peoplesoft HCM instance in the Amazon EC2 cloud.
The proof of concept was to be offered as a joint venture "productized" consulting service coinciding with the launch of PT8.50 and HCM9.1 this fall. The "Cloud Broker" piece is still missing which basically means we can't have clients sign up and once built, provision their instances "on Demand"... although that is where I envision going once we get more funding and some time to build that piece into the infrastructure.
The basic architecture has been:
- Windows2003/SQLServer 2005 Standard "Small Instance (Default)": 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
- Peoplesoft Vanilla Install for evaluation purposes.
- EBS (Elastic Block Store) volumes to house the database, as the i/o throughput is much better than the standard instance.
There is some magic that goes into getting this up and running, but it is by no means impossible!
I foresee Peoplesoft installations running happily in Internal IT Clouds in not too distant a future.
Imagine a DMO environment, for every developer if needed!
Imagine a DMO environment for every major bug your team is following up on.
Imagine separate environments provisioned on an hour's notice for multiple testing streams!
The possibilities are endless!
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