I'm looking at building a lab environment and a co worker says I need to use vCloud director as apposed to using lab manager. I've got a couple questions and concerns before I head down that road.
First I want to build a test environment, where different groups can test their applications without stepping on others. Most of my VM's will never change but they made need to edit one or two servers in order to preform integration testing with their application.
1. I'd like them to be able to log in from their terminals on the primary network as apposed to setting up a desktop for each environment. I don't mind if they use an application like view or something, but I just want to stay away from multiple systems for each user.
2. I was told that vCloud Director could assign a single VM to multiple environments. For example if two groups are working on different applications and need to make different changes to the same IIS server that those would appear different in the enviorment but since Active Directory wouldn't change their domain controller would remain the same machine, is that correct? How does vCloud Director handle IP address conflicts?
3. Also in this lab environment I don't want to have to keep changing IP Addresses to avoid DNS Conflicts. I'd like to move production to this lab and let them run to minimize administration, but I need to connect them to an exterior machine since VMWare doesn't support SPARC. Does each machine need its own VLAN back into the network.
Thanks.