Introduction

AVEVA System Platform is a scalable, industrial software framework designed for supervisory control, real-time data processing, HMI/SCADA, and operations management across industrial environments. It acts as the central foundation for integrating and visualizing data from multiple systems, ensuring operational efficiency, situational awareness, and decision support.

Virtualization refers to the abstraction of physical computing resources—such as servers, storage, and networks—into logical instances known as virtual machines (VMs). This enables more flexible deployment, centralized management, faster provisioning, and better hardware utilization.

When deploying AVEVA System Platform in a virtualized environment, correct configuration is crucial to ensure performance, reliability, and high availability. This includes properly sizing VMs for roles like Galaxy Repository, Historian, and Application Object Servers; assigning dedicated resources for real-time workloads; configuring redundancy; and isolating critical services on separate virtual networks. Improper virtualization—such as resource overcommitment, storage latency, or network misconfiguration—can lead to unpredictable behavior, degraded performance, or complete system outages.

Therefore, aligning virtualization best practices with AVEVA’s system requirements is key to delivering a resilient, scalable, and supportable industrial automation infrastructure.

This guide provides information about optimizing your virtual environment for System Platform implementations. It covers the following areas:

• Top considerations for virtualization

• Plan your virtualized environment

• Resource allocation

• Network architecture

• Backup and disaster recovery (DR)

• Use AWS for virtualization