Question about SCVMM and Lab Management setup.

Question

Hello all,

I was hoping someone can help me on best practices or recommended set up of SCVMM and Lab Management.  Here is my current setup:

I have 2 physical servers that run TFS and the TFS database.  All builds and source control is done from these servers.  I have a new Hyper-V server that I created a new app tier TFS server.  I am going to use this one as my Lab Management server.  The server that this runs on though does not have a lot of disk space so, for the time being, this will be the only VM running here.

I have 2 more servers that I am going to use as my VM Hosts.  My question is, where should I install SCVMM?  Should I install it on the root of one of my VM Hosts?  Should I install it as a VM on one of the Hosts that it will manage?  Or should I install it on a completely different server?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

One more question.  I know the test agent is a client computer but does the test controller need to be a client computer also or one of my TFS servers?

Answer 2

Hi, the test controller can be on on of the VM's and does'nt have to be on the TFS server. The test agent will need to be on each and every VM that is part of the environment.

Regarding the SCVMM installation, I think it can be anywhere amongst the options you mentioned. I would go with installing it seperately or on one of the VM Hosts. For best practices around SCVMM, you can post your question on http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/virtualmachinemanager

Thanks,

Anuj

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Answer 3

Thank you for the reply.  It is difficult right now to put it on another server si I think I will put it on one of the Hosts.

Thank you again.