Re: CAD Worker as a VM?

Sorry for the delay.  Basically you need to do the following:

On the CAD worker

1. Create a dedicated user account for each worker.
2. Create a dedicated GS Worker daemon process for each worker (using the accounts from step 1)
3. Create a unique folder and adapter config for each worker
4. Manually modify the worker scripts with the "-DA" option
5. Manually modify each proestartup.bat file with "taskkill" line
6. Optional - create dedicated upload subfolders for each worker.  (Before I did this I had some issues with different workers attempting to create folders with the same name causing write conflicts.)

On the server

1. Add entries to the "hosts" file for the additional "phantom" worker machines
2. Add the additional workers to the Worker Agent Administration.  (I found this easier to do by hand with a text editor.  The file is located at <wt_home>\conf\wvs\agent.ini .)
3. If using shared folders, leave the agent.ini lines for username and password blank (these are for ftp only)
4. Create additional publish queues, one for each worker.
5. Optional - create a dedicated background method server for WVS.

This is all covered in these articles:

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS29308

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS43769

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS41866

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS162756

And of course, the Visualization Services Guide (10.2 M020)

http://support.ptc.com/WCMS/files/157363/en/WindchillVisualizationServicesGuide_10-2_M020.pdf

Let me know if you have any questions.  If there is enough interest I could probably put some type of actual guide together.