You can still use Enterprise, and if you want-- even the same physical servers. You could have a couple instances which are part of your production cluster, an instance or two which are part of your testing cluster. There is no limit to the number of instance and cluster combinations you can have each with their own code bases and data sources. That being said, I still think it is a good idea to physically separate you production stuff from your dev and test stuff for extra stability and security. Also, sometimes you may want to install a windows patch to your test server first and test it, THEN put it on production.
We actually use VM's for our dev and testing environments to save on hardware purchases. (We have 9 separate lower environments.) Our production servers are still on separate physical boxes in a DMZ with tighter security all around. ~Brad -----Original Message----- From: Jim Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:57 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: FW: server failover/multiple instances > I would recommend keeping your testing/training environment separate > from production. Your testing environment may require newly developed > code which has not been migrated to production. You probably will want > a separate database as well for training and testing for similar > reasons. > That is the idea, and they will all have their own databases. I was mainly trying to avoid setting up the extra systems for training and testing, but the more I think about it, I'll probably just use CF Standard on our VMWare server for those two. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| CF 8 â Scorpio beta now available, easily build great internet experiences â Try it now on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:281557 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
