Central Testbed environment using VMware
Hi all,
Who can reccommend a really good setup for a testbed where 25+ engineers can test a variety of scenarios and OS's. This testbed environment would also serve as a demo platform to customers if we have new products or services to show at their site.
I am looking at getting a new server in, with VMware (not sure what version suits best and waiting to speak to their sales reps over holidays) and I am guessing I am gonna need TS installed for this setup as well.
Who can reccommend a really good setup for a testbed where 25+ engineers can test a variety of scenarios and OS's. This testbed environment would also serve as a demo platform to customers if we have new products or services to show at their site.
I am looking at getting a new server in, with VMware (not sure what version suits best and waiting to speak to their sales reps over holidays) and I am guessing I am gonna need TS installed for this setup as well.
DevOps Engineer and Security Champion. https://blog.pash.by - I am trying to find my writing style, so please bear with me.
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liven
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What OSs are you going to be running?
I have had some performance issues with some *nix versions. Of course this is to be expected, but could effect your decision. I am well aware that virtual machines will not only perform to a certain degree depending on how much resources they are allocated. But the real performance hit was on the networking side. If this is not a concern to you then please ignore my comments.
Particularly Sun Solaris x86 (version 10), and ubuntu.
With Sun I just randomly loose packets. With Ubuntu is it just slow.
thats my two cents.encrypt the encryption, never mind my brain hurts. -
dynamik
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You might want to check out server: http://vmware.com/download/server/
There's a free download that you can play around with. I haven't used Linux extensively in my lab, but Ubuntu never seemed to have any problems. I'm using VMWare Workstation 6.