Test and deveploment in productions environmnet?

[TobiasM]

Hi

We have three sites primary, secondat and backup site. On our secondary site I want to create a test environment and a devolpment evironment anlog with my production environment. I don´t want test and development to interfer with my production. How should I design this, is it with resource pool or should I create a new vm cluster with two hosts?

Rgds

Tobias

[weinstein5]

Either would work - advantage of using resource pools is you would have resources available for your test/dev environment when the production is not heavily used - While have a seperate physical cluster you will eliminate the risk of tranmpling over the production resources but you will be removing potential resource that the production environment  could use in times of need

[chriswahl]

I tend to advocate for resource pools, as you can quickly snatch away the test/dev resources and give them to prod if a critical need arises.

For details on setting up resource pools, I'd advise reading my post on how to set up share values: http://wahlnetwork.com/2012/02/01/understanding-resource-pools-in-vmware-vsphere/