QA/Infrastructure/On Demand Provisioning

Overview

Lead:	Al Billings
Status:	ESX Server in PHX is qp-vmware02. Virtual machines are running.

Summary

The QA organization needs on demand resources for support of various projects under development (such as Jenkins integration or Webapps QA).

The following templates are available for virtual machines:

• Ubuntu 11.04 Standard 32-bit
• Ubuntu 11.04 Standard 64-bit
• Ubuntu 11.10 Server 32-bit
• Ubuntu 11.10 Server 64-bit

Project Plan

Goal

To provide on demand servers for members of the QA team for development sandboxes or other short to mid-term needs.

Milestones

Milestone 1

Completion of:

• [DONE] Creation of QA ESX Server
• [DONE] Creation of a series of virtual machines running the list of currently supported operating systems on the ESX server.

Milestone 2

Completion of:

• [DONE] Templates for common operating system virtual machines are available.

Notes

VM management

• Scriptable via vSphere Command-Line Interface (VCLI)
• vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) - prepackaged Linux VM that can deploy scripts and third-party agents to manage ESX systems.