One more tricky point that probably prevents EC2 machines from being our automated test framework: they charge for a full hour every time the instance is started. This means that we can't reasonably start and stop the instance during the run of a test (say).
Karl On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Started to do some research on this. > > (1) I can't find a dedicated SharePoint instance that you can just > buy. While that's a shame, I do have access to SharePoint 2010 via an > MSDN iso. I'll need to download it and figure out how to install it > remotely. Luckily download of data seems to be free. > > (2) The base instance that seems right for us is this one: > http://aws.amazon.com/windows/ . There's not much on its domain > affinity, etc, however. It's going to be a bit of a learning curve > clearly. > > (3) The instance size needed is determined by the SharePoint > requirements. My .iso is 64-bit only. So at the minimum, we need > this: > > Large Instance 7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores > with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of local instance storage, > 64-bit platform > > (4) Pricing. For this instance size, with Windows, it starts at $0.48 > an hour. The windows instances is Server 2008 R2, which is the right > one, and comes with IIS for free and with what sounds like the MSDE > version of SQL server. They state you can use the local SQL instance > for free, but also say that if you want SQL Server it's $1.08 an hour. > So I'm not quite sure I know what to get yet, and until I actually > try it I am not going to know. > > My best guess is that this is going to take quite a bit of time to > learn and assess, probably 10-15 hours conservatively. But I think > it's well worth the cost of exploration. > > Karl > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A colleague of mine who's been learning the "cloud" says that Amazon >> EC2 may offer the simplest way to test ManifoldCF with proprietary >> connectors. Specifically we'd want to start testing with SharePoint >> 2010. The steps are as follows: >> >> (1) Set up an instance. Amazon probably already offers a SharePoint >> installed instance. For other instances, we'd need to transfer the >> iso data into the Amazon file system, which may be time consuming but >> only need be done once. >> >> (2) Run the instance when needed. Amazon provides an API for this >> which means we can even write tests that turn the instance on or off >> during the test. This is probably also a good way to manage >> concurrency, since if the instance is already up the test can wait >> until it comes back down, etc. >> >> (3) Fees are 10-20 cents/hour, which is quite manageable, but somebody >> will need to cough up a credit card that can be billed for this >> (probably me). >> >> I'm going to start by testing our current SharePoint connector in >> branches/CONNECTORS-221 by hand to be sure that the jar changes needed >> by the CMIS connector did not have any unfortunate effects on Axis, >> and I'll post if this seems like a viable plan. >> >> Thoughts? >> Karl >> >
