Comments on: Building a Better Test Lab http://vinf.net/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/ My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:29:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Building a Better Test Lab « Virtualization, Windows, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between « Julianwood's Blog http://vinf.net/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-1991 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:57:57 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-1991 [...] Building a Better Test Lab « Virtualization, Windows, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between Building a Better Test Lab « Virtualization, Windows, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between. [...]

]]> By: vinf http://vinf.net/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-427 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:20:12 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-427 Hi, I’ve not updated this post for some time but I do mean to do so at somepoint.. in terms of our approach is there anything specific you are looking for? we basically looked at what was there and worked out how to replicate it under VMWare, using VLAN tagging and Checkpoint VSX

]]> By: paolo http://vinf.net/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-420 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:58:14 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-420 Catlin hi,

I am in the process of building a clone of my production environment and I would be very interested to see your approach during the network and server design.
Do you have any more guide for this?

Thanks in advance

Paolo

]]> By: vmlogix http://vinf.net/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-208 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:24:20 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-208 Hi Catlin,

You should take a look at VMLogix LabManager (http://www.vmlogix.com). It is a virtual lab automation solution that is hypervisor agnostic and supports leading hypervisors from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. We do support Microsoft Virtual Server, in response to your question.

You can request for a free 30 day evaluation on our website.

- Srihari Palangala, VMLogix
http://blog.vmlogix.com

]]> By: S.Hussain http://vinf.net/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-155 Mon, 19 May 2008 06:57:51 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-155 Hello,
I’m on the process to Build a Virtual Environment with ESX between Primary Site and DR Site.

I’m worried about the IP Address of the Virtual Machines when the moved to the DR Site, how the Client will be able to reach to those VMs in Production which are located in the Primary Site?

The Primary Site is in different subnet other than the DR Site.

Branches are connected to the Primary Site.

At the DR Site, we have the Same ESX Servers Setup with SAN Storage and the same Netwoking and VLAN will be used. “It’s like a Replica of Setup”.

How the Branches will be able to reach the VMs when it’s booted from the DR Site?

Can someone elaborate for me how this can work?

]]> By: VMWare Stage Manager Beta is Open.. « Virtualization, Windows, Infrastructure and all that “stuff” in-between http://vinf.net/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-34 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:27:17 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-34 [...] spent a lot of time at the start of 2007 building this type of system from scratch (see the build a better test lab posts). hopefully this will go a long way to making it easier to [...]

]]> By: vinf http://vinf.net/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-32 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:40:42 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-32 As far as I know Lab Manager is VMWare only.

That said Microsoft have a new product that will be capable of managing VMWare and MS Virtual server + others – you should be able to use this to “manage” the VMs – but not sure how deep this management goes or how it lines up to VMWare’s offering – most of these MS products spend so much time trying to do get coverage of the market/tech sometimes they don’t go deep enough in terms of functionality, but I have not had a chance to try it out yet.

The principals within this article are mostly the same regardless of the underlying virtualization product – as long as it supports P2V, VLAN tagging – if required.

The MS product is called MSVMM

some links here http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2007/09/06/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-huge-announcements.aspx

and http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/scvmm/default.mspx

If the actual Hypervisor becomes reasonably irrelevant http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=436 I would expect to see VMWare’s management products being capable of managing other Hypervisors – they’ll have to do so to stay alive, having the best technology only carries you so far in the market..

]]> By: Caitlin http://vinf.net/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-31 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:32:30 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-31 What if we are using MSVS? I’m assuming VMware Lab Manager will not support that for test lab. Who would be the next vendor to provide MSVS support?

]]> By: VMWare Stage Manager « Virtualization, Windows, Infrastructure and all that “stuff” in-between http://vinf.net/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-24 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:43:53 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/building-a-better-test-lab/#comment-24 [...] like this idea of this. it sounds like a product for automating a lot of what I blogged about in my Build a better test lab series (much delayed in publishing… must find some time to post [...]

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