Environment
GroupWise 18.1
Situation
What is the best configuration for the DVA in GroupWise 18.1?
Resolution
The GroupWise DVA was designed to serve requests from POA and
WebAccess since GW 2012. The DVA is not required to run on
the same server of POA nor WebAccess. It can be used to serve
one agent or multiple agents based on system configuration and
system load. The files are transported between agents using
HTTP. Since the GW2018 SP1, DVA has replaced the
Stellent Document Viewer with the Keyview technology to handle the
document conversion. The Keyview takes more resources to handle the
conversion of documents into HTML. So it is our recommended
practice to run a DVA or DVAs on a lesser busy server, such as the
WebAccess server or MTA server. POA is normally the busiest
agent among all the GroupWise agents.