Virtualized Development Server for simulating 3-Tier Environment
- by chris.cyvas
Hello,
I am thinking about buying a new server based development box for development (redundantly redundant, I know ;)). Ideally, I want to run something like ESXi or Xen Hypervisor at the lowest level. Then I want to add (at least) 5 Linux VM's for the following uses:
2 Web Servers
2 Application Servers
1 Database Server
I want to load balance the 2 web servers and the 2 application servers and (somewhat obviously) they need to be all networked together to simulate a production environment.
Also, it used to be the case that the recommendation was to put each VM on it's own hard drive, but I'm not sure that holds water anymore. Any advice?
Does anyone have any advice on how to pull this off? Gotchya's, LookOuts!, etc?
Thanks!