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Revision as of 20:53, 31 January 2010

Note: This page may be outdated and expresses multiple opinions that are not the current opinion held by much of the current VistA community. (This page is undergoing current revision.)

Planning

What operating systems can a VistA server run on? The VA has historically run it on VMS, Indian Health and others on Microsoft Windows with Caché, and the Open Source community on Linux with GT.M.

  • CentOS A popular Linux operating system for production use with VistA.
  • OpenSolaris zones OpenSolaris is an open source release of high-end Unix server software from Sun. Solaris zones function as simple but elegant virtual machines.

Installing VistA

For a discussion of the issues involved, here are some slide shows presented at VistA Community Meetings about the process of installing a VistA system at a particular site:

When you are ready to install VistA, you have a number of choices.

Setup VistA

Configuration is probably the most arduous and expensive step. It never ends.

Maintaining VistA

Restoring VistA

Your system either has already crashed or it will eventually.

Other Resources