QA/QA Lab Requirements/Minimized

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Minimalist Plan

Desk 1

  • Intel Mac dual booting Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard
  • PPC Mac dual booting Tiger and Leopard
  • 2 monitors (built in)
  • 1 shared keyboard (kvm)
  • 1 shared mouse (kvm)

Desk 2

  • Win32 PC multibooting XP, Vista (Ultimate & Other), 7
  • Win64 PC multibooting XP, Vista (Ultimate & Other), 7
  • Linux PC multibooting 32-bit and 64-bit OSs
  • 1 shared monitor (kvm)
  • 1 shared keyboard (kvm)
  • 1 shared mouse (kvm)

Desk 3

  • 2 Debug computers for Clint
  • 1 shared monitor (kvm)
  • 1 shared keyboard (kvm)
  • 1 shared mouse (kvm)

Other

  • Tablet can roam within the lab
  • Printers can run from a single PC (perhaps qamini02 or one of the Windows PCs)
  • Devices can roam within the lab and be used with any platform
  • One 20+ port switch

Remove

  • BC/Tracy computers possibly relocated
  • Win98 no longer needed

Maintenance

  • All computers should be formatted and reinstalled from scratch
  • New images should be made once a clean state is reached
  • Images should be stored on network and optical media
  • Recommend auto-updates turned on and checked on a weekly or monthly basis
  • Once per year, computers should be restored to clean image, fully updated and have new "clean" images created

Summary

Current (assume no KVM) Minimalistic
Physical Computers 11 7
Monitors 6 2 (4 with iMacs)
Keyboards 11 3
Mice 11 3
Switch 1 1
KVM 0 3
Printers 2 2
Devices 0 Any number of tablets/devices
can be accommodated

Note: The Win32 and Win64 PCs could be combined into one multiboot computer.

Pros & Cons

Pros:

  • Less space
  • Less power
  • Less cost
  • No loss of native platform coverage
  • Fault tolerance
  • Easy restoration to clean state
  • Easy maintenance

Cons:

  • Slight downtime for rebooting into desired platform (assuming it is not booted)

Concerns

marcia

  • Having to reboot restricts ability for side-by-side comparison
  • Experience with KVMs is flaky
  • One printer should be connected to a Mac

jmaher

  • Consider the current power strip situation and requirements for device dongles

whimboo

  • Synergy as an alternative to KVMs (would only share keyboard + mouse, not monitors)
  • Each machine would need its own monitor
  • For machines with multiple versions of OS X we should create a separate data partition for sharing applications (e.g. debug builds) and data

mikeal

  • KVM low use machines
  • Synergy high use machines
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