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- Best Accuracy - Isolated Platform
- Must be provided by one or more hosts
- Also good if on isolated LAN segment
- Dedicated disks particularly helpful and can test various storage subsystems
- Separate machine for database and/or resource index
- Separate machine for load injection
- Costs system admin time to set up but the installation can be reused
- Likely only one or a small number of configurations can be supported
- Some costs in moving test data sets around
- It would be nice to permit a Bamboo agent to kick off tests
- Reports can be sent to a common location
- Most Convenience - Cloud Platform
- Costs cash money but only during testing
- Difficult to eliminate variables so results will not be as accurate
- Relatively easy to provide a number of configurations (but there is setup time)
- AMI or equivalent must be built (though some of this can be done automatically)
- Shared LAN/WAN only choice
- Shared disk is only choice
- Easy to incorporate Bamboo
- Reports can be sent to a common location