Hi Guys, first time poster (since the reset ages ago)
I'm a software architect and I'm looking to set up a test environment at home; I never have enough time/resources during work hours.
Basically I've got a few enterprise applications and frameworks that I've been writing for the last 6 months based on the Microsoft stack, i.e.
SQL Server 2008, .NET 3.5 (WCF/WF) deploying to various flavours of Windows (2003/2008, x86 and x64). I'm NLB the web front ends and the Business Logic tiers of the app's (seperately), and I'll be running Microsoft Velocity Caching in between the BLL and DAL (Note, Velocity is very RAM hungry). The DAL will also be NLB'd. I have direct attached storage to a box here running SQL Server 2008 (Just a home PC, Q6600 @ 3GHz with 8GB RAM).
I'm trying to set up a home environment that I can host and stress test these solutions at my leisure. I think I might be able to get away with just adding one more box with ~32GB RAM and 8 core to host most of the above and then stress test on various boxes that I have lying around. The only other issue is the leccy bill!
Also, in the back of the mind is that fact that I might want to eventually want to colo the setup.
Does anyone else have this sort of test environment in their house, and if so what sort of set up have you got?
Cheers,
Stu
I'm a software architect and I'm looking to set up a test environment at home; I never have enough time/resources during work hours.
Basically I've got a few enterprise applications and frameworks that I've been writing for the last 6 months based on the Microsoft stack, i.e.
SQL Server 2008, .NET 3.5 (WCF/WF) deploying to various flavours of Windows (2003/2008, x86 and x64). I'm NLB the web front ends and the Business Logic tiers of the app's (seperately), and I'll be running Microsoft Velocity Caching in between the BLL and DAL (Note, Velocity is very RAM hungry). The DAL will also be NLB'd. I have direct attached storage to a box here running SQL Server 2008 (Just a home PC, Q6600 @ 3GHz with 8GB RAM).
I'm trying to set up a home environment that I can host and stress test these solutions at my leisure. I think I might be able to get away with just adding one more box with ~32GB RAM and 8 core to host most of the above and then stress test on various boxes that I have lying around. The only other issue is the leccy bill!
Also, in the back of the mind is that fact that I might want to eventually want to colo the setup.
Does anyone else have this sort of test environment in their house, and if so what sort of set up have you got?
Cheers,
Stu