Virtual Appliance

The PrinterLogic Virtual Appliance is the latest generation of PrinterLogic’s on-premises platform.

Key Points

  • The Virtual Appliance is distributed as a fully integrated, standards-based open virtualization format (OVA) solution.
  • It’s streamlined and self-contained for new customers who want the benefits of PrinterLogic’s serverless printing infrastructure but need tighter control over their print environment.
  • Helps customers maximize their investments in virtual infrastructures designed to reduce unnecessary hardware, software, and ongoing maintenance costs.
  • The Virtual Appliance is a path forward to get the latest features PrinterLogic has to offer with the latest functionality and ongoing support.

The Virtual Appliance has been called “SaaS in a box” because it functions just like SaaS, but in your private cloud behind your firewall. It installs and spins up much faster than PrinterLogic Web Stack, which is the previous on-prem implementation. The Virtual Appliance is a complete, unitized solution that’s ready to install, including a server OS, web services, network environment, and the PrinterLogic application.

The Virtual Appliance includes a timely and easy update system that allows the customer to get the firm’s latest features and improvements. Features become available soon after they are pushed to PrinterLogic SaaS.

Key Components

  1. A self-contained management server.
  2. A small app that’s installed on every workstation (known as “the Client”).
  3. An enhanced client for additional services that’s a shared resource (known as the “Service Client”).

The latter is installed on a workstation that is always powered on.

Minimum System Requirements

Depending on the configured features and user count, the minimum requirements for the Virtual Appliance may increase. Use the recommendations below when creating your Virtual Appliance, but continue to monitor the CPU and RAM utilization and allocate additional resources as needed.

  • Four 3.5-4.0 GHz processors. Add two 3.5 GHz processors for each additional 15,000 users.
  • 16GB RAM for up to 15,000 users.
    • Add 2 CPUs / 8GB RAM for each additional 15,000 users.
    • Add a minimum of 2 CPUs and 4GB RAM if using the Internal Service Client.
    • Add 2 CPUs and 4GB RAM per 500 CPA/Simple Badge Release installations.
  • 150GB free hard disk space for the host disk.
  • There should be 50GB of free hard disk space on the persistent storage disk (add 4GB for every 100 printers).
  • There is a requirement for NTLMv2 to connect to the appliance-storage shared folder of the PrinterLogic Virtual Appliance.