SharePoint UAT Environment
Hello,
I have an interesting question regarding a UAT environment for some testing I have created.
Basically what I have done is take a copy of the Central Administration Server from the live system - which is virtual and put it on a different virtual environment and that I have also taken a copy of the live database via a backup and restored it to a SQL server running on the virtual environment.
I got this working and in theory I should be laughing, however it runs extremely slowly.
Any ideas? I have changed the name of the URL for obvious reasons from somelike like SharePoint.Something.com to > UAT.SharePoint, which I could expect would cause a few links to break and maybe some images to not come up properly, but this is ridiculous.
Of the things I have tried so far I have:
Checked both the WFE and the SQL boxes on both TaskMgr and PerfMon and checked on VM management tool and they are not being nearly maxed out, but even so I have doubled the ram to 4gb each!!!! I have optimised the SQL DB, which gave a slight improvement but not a lot. I have even tried accessing directly on the WFE, but still no improvement.
On a slight other note, I also have my Dev environment running off of the same Virtual Box, obviously a different VM, which looks at the same SQL, but is a vanilla build of SP MOSS 2007, however runs extremely fast.
Any ideas? Is there some setting that I have missed or something I can change?
Is there a better way of creating an accurate UAT copy of Live?
Any help appreciated.
I have an interesting question regarding a UAT environment for some testing I have created.
Basically what I have done is take a copy of the Central Administration Server from the live system - which is virtual and put it on a different virtual environment and that I have also taken a copy of the live database via a backup and restored it to a SQL server running on the virtual environment.
I got this working and in theory I should be laughing, however it runs extremely slowly.
Any ideas? I have changed the name of the URL for obvious reasons from somelike like SharePoint.Something.com to > UAT.SharePoint, which I could expect would cause a few links to break and maybe some images to not come up properly, but this is ridiculous.
Of the things I have tried so far I have:
Checked both the WFE and the SQL boxes on both TaskMgr and PerfMon and checked on VM management tool and they are not being nearly maxed out, but even so I have doubled the ram to 4gb each!!!! I have optimised the SQL DB, which gave a slight improvement but not a lot. I have even tried accessing directly on the WFE, but still no improvement.
On a slight other note, I also have my Dev environment running off of the same Virtual Box, obviously a different VM, which looks at the same SQL, but is a vanilla build of SP MOSS 2007, however runs extremely fast.
Any ideas? Is there some setting that I have missed or something I can change?
Is there a better way of creating an accurate UAT copy of Live?
Any help appreciated.
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Hello again Tedbilly,
Sorry I forgot to mention it is in a private Lan, with a copy of the AD controllers, and not way to look out.
Sorry I forgot to mention it is in a private Lan, with a copy of the AD controllers, and not way to look out.
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I would not have done what you've done unless I put the UAT copy into a second private LAN with a duplicate domain and exchange controller so the two environments were identical.
Sadly Sharepoint has NOT considered this scenario and provides no viable solution. Here is what we do.
Each developer has a private VM hosting their own copy of Sharepoint for development.
We have staging environment which is manually maintained to duplicate (mostly) production.
On our Production farm we setup UAT versions (duplicates) of web applications in active development so the users accepting our work can try it on production hardware.