QA/Infrastructure/On Demand Provisioning
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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.