virtualization plan
Working towards JBI Service Engine scalable testing
When checking out different branches from different projects using different tools, it is hard to predict which two or three builds need to run at any given time. I’ve had to maintain nearly identical setups across multiple physical systems.
Plan: attach granular VirtualBox disks to a particular virtual machine as needed.
The benefits:
- save energy (powering up fewer physical machines when only running a couple of builds at once)
- “on demand” scaling (”move” work to additional physical machines by copying a relatively small disk image for each vm)
- less entropy (cloning disks ensures identical setups)
This makes it easier to distribute test clients and servers across my network and try different WS-Notification publish/subscribe use-cases and configurations.
Category: open-esb, virtualbox
Posted by: Mike Wright on: September 10, 2008