How to recreate a production server on a virtual machine on a local server (for testing)?

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niko832012-01-25 13:18:41

Software testing

niko83, 2012-01-25 13:18:41

There is a production server, I would like to have the closest possible copy of the entire environment installed on it at hand on the test server.

In order not to catch situations when everything is OK on the test server, but ERROR on the production, due to the fact that either the base is a slightly different version or nginx is built differently, and so on ...

What are the methods and ways to solve such a problem?

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cat_crash, 2012-01-25
@cat_crash

look at the solution from VMware VMware vCenter Converter

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Sannis, 2012-01-25
@Sannis

If you use very custom builds, you can package them in RPM/DEB and install them on all servers from a separate repository.

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Perkov, 2012-01-25
@Perkov

The question is how often this needs to be done, or is it a one-time thing. If it's a one-time thing, dump/restore is the fastest way to do it. If it's constant, look at VMware. It can clone living machines.