Looking for input: Segregating hosts to specific VM servers

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> Currently we have our staging environment and our production
> environment on the same servers. This works well for the most part
> because the loads generated by staging rarely affect production.
> However there are times where it would be nice to be able to test
> certain 'issues' together. As in updating the core xen/kvm server and
> a staging environment without affecting anything in production. My
> idea would be to look at either repurposing or budgeting for a staging
> xen server (lets call it sxen01 for convention) that would be used for
> various staging servers that could test for updates to say EL5.5->
> EL5.6 on all the systems at once or to work on tuning variables
> without affecting production servers.
>
> This is an initial idea so I am looking for feedback.
>

IIRC we had them this way before but had to merge them back together.  I'd
say xen01.stg would be following the convention we already have in place.
I'm not inheritly against this but unfortunatly the shared network means
we don't gain a whole lot from it.

What host did you have in mind?

	-Mike