June 14, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Hi ALL,
I am putting together a plan to implement a clustered test environment. Any input on what the benefits of implementing this test environment are will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Moses.
June 15, 2011 at 3:17 am
While clustering does not ensure that there would never be an outage, it does help to reduce the number of outages and allows both database administrators and server administrators options during the outage situations that occur in any server environment.
The main purpose of setting up Clustered environment is to provide high availability protection to the application data, in thsi case as you got the test environment in place it is best to install database and perform testing of application while performing a failover/failback tasks on cluster.
Using clustering in your database environments may help prevent many outages that are caused from server crashes, server maintenance, or even loss of network connectivity to a server. Also see http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Clustering/72619/ fyi.
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June 15, 2011 at 3:23 am
Hmmm ur organization must have a lot of money to setup a test environment using clustering.
Clustering is a DR or high availability solution, any reason why a test environment will need to be highly available ?
Usually some companies setup a live like or Pre production env which would mimic the setup of live ie. with clustering , however these testbeds are used for NFR checks and not for application code tests.
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