Questions about your test environments.

[Luis Martinez <lm...@yahoo.com.INVALID>]

Hi Group

I am curious about how you run your test environments in Shape Blue or 
anybody in the group.

1.- Do you use hardware to install and configure your test environments 
or do you use virtual machines and what do you use ?

2.- Do you run some performance test?

3.- Can you share a description of hardware you are using?


I use XCP-NG to create as many VMs I need to run my test then I move it 
to bare metal as follows

-- 1 8 core xeon with 30G RAM where I run a VM for the manager

--1 8 core xeon with 16G RAM with FREENAS for primary and secondary

--1 24 cores XEON with 64 G RAM for the host, this is where the VM's run

Thank you,

Luis Martinez.

Re: Questions about your test environments.

[Daan Hoogland <da...@gmail.com>]

Luis, over the years several nested environments have been developed. At
shapeblue there is a small lab that uses Trillian [1] to deploy VMs. when
in the jungle you could use monkeybox [2] on your laptop. long time ago
there was devcloud but I don't know if it is still used (monkeybox is kind
of a successor) and "the bubble" [4] which still exists but is not actively
maintained for cloudstack.
If you are operating a cloud I strongly advice to keep a small mirror of
your production hardware to test on. There is always these little snags
that will catcha if you don't take care.

[1] https://github.com/shapeblue/Trillian
[2] https://github.com/rhtyd/monkeybox
[3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/DevCloud
[4] https://github.com/MissionCriticalCloud/bubble-toolkit

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 4:47 PM Luis Martinez
<lm...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi Group
>
> I am curious about how you run your test environments in Shape Blue or
> anybody in the group.
>
> 1.- Do you use hardware to install and configure your test environments
> or do you use virtual machines and what do you use ?
>
> 2.- Do you run some performance test?
>
> 3.- Can you share a description of hardware you are using?
>
>
> I use XCP-NG to create as many VMs I need to run my test then I move it
> to bare metal as follows
>
> -- 1 8 core xeon with 30G RAM where I run a VM for the manager
>
> --1 8 core xeon with 16G RAM with FREENAS for primary and secondary
>
> --1 24 cores XEON with 64 G RAM for the host, this is where the VM's run
>
> Thank you,
>
> Luis Martinez.
>
>

-- 
Daan