Deployment
For our first effortpass, we will would like to set up 3 machines as shown in the diagram above.
We expect that we'll have to do some experimenting to get these "right".
Once we are happy with these 3 VMs and the "application assembly",
we plan to clone the VMs to create a QA, and a PROD environment.
Carinet, please review this section. Is there a way to clone the entire assembly?
Will we have to tweak the firewall settings each time we clone?
Our primitive datacenter BCP plan is as follows.
Whenever we change a VM configuration, we take copy the VM and store it offsite (at the city?).
Should the datacenter fail badly (fire, etc), we provide carinet with the VMs,
and carinet brings up the VMs at another location.
Does this sound sane?
Note that we handle DB backups separately.Carinet, please review this section.
We plan to move these VMs to our datacenter by midyear 2011.
We want to insure that these VMs are potableportable.
We expect to do a simple VM copy and do not need v-motion.
Is this reasonable?
Carinet Responsibilities
- Provision hardware
- Provide 3 VMs using barebones
VMWare version x.x (todo - need version number) - install Centos 5 64 bit on each VM
- install Apache web server on the web server VM
- install package manager (yum or Apt-get)
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