Autodesk Vault General Info

[lcamara]

Is the Riverbed Steelhead Appliance a VPN router? We currently have a VPN router and still have wait times.

A VPN router just off-loads the encryption calculations from your workstation (which will probably only increase speed if your CPU was over-taxed to begin with). The Steelhead is a "cache" of your network server(s). The difference between it & creating a full server that's sync'd with the main one is that it's dynamic, so it doesn't need to have the same (full) capacity. There's also a competing VPN acceleration (software-only) product available from Availl/GlobalSCAPE - WAFS (which actually duplicates/synchronizes the entire server and saves previous versions, instead of "caching"), but don't ask me about either product - we don't have any other offices, and it's just too expensive for individual users working from home part-time (though it looks like Riverbed has a "Mobile" version now, which I'll be checking out). With your two full-time users, it might make sense (also taking into account the decreased management).

Looking at it again now, WAFS seems very similar to SureSync's functionality (which we have), though we haven't started using the File Locking option.

[Ehsan]

all the issues may have discuss here but no one tell which types of vault is good for a team work on autocad 2012.
thanks

[David Gaskill]

Vault works well if the correct procedure is followed. We use Inventor and could not live without vault. Yes it takes some change in work flow but the gains out weight the draw backs. I disagree that the restore won't work with ACAD, there is a work flow that works for over writing files. First check out the file, turn off the read only attribute, restore the file (over write it with the same file name) then check it back in.