NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

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We are wanting to install all 3 environments (Live, Test and Development) onto our servers and are looking for the best possible way to have all 3 environments running together, currently we have 2 servers Serv1 has the NAV server with all 3 NAV Server Instances setup and also the Development environment and Dev SQL. Serv2 has the Live and test SQL databases on the same SQL Instance.

What I would like to know is it worth moving all Development including the NAV Server Instance for Dev onto the same machine and have that isolated, or is it the best practice to have all 3 NAV Server instances managed from the same machine?

Thanks

David

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Alexander Ermakov 28,094 on at

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RE: NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

I would say that putting everything on one server will be quite dangerous. Imagine that some developer can make/run such a report that would be designed improperly and this would eat up all available server memory. This would result in you live environment to crash.

Live environment should ALWAYS be located on a server, separated from test and dev environments.
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dkatson 2,263 on at

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RE: NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

Better to devide on 2 different VM.

1 VM - Production

2 VM - Development & Test
Maneesha 5,891 on at

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RE: NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

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Rabin 2,976 on at

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RE: NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

Hi David,

It's all about Best Practices. Installing everything on the same system might look technically feasible and easy to maintain but it might lead you to many problems like:

-Security of your Live Data

-System Crashing issue

-Low Performance

-and many others.

As suggested by Yogesh&Luk, Try to use different machine for the separate environment.

In addition, it is also recommend to install different Tiers(NAVCLIENT, NAVSERV & NAVSQL) on Different System so as to get the best performance.

Another good suggest would be to use the Test environment as similar/Updated to the Live Environment as possible, this can help overcome different post-testing and pre-implementation issues.
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Amol Salvi 18,696 on at

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RE: NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

Agree with Luc that you should have different server for production db which will us full resources for operation.

You can create test and development on one server

But production db should be isolated .
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Suresh Kulla 47,773 on at

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RE: NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

Hello,

I totally disagree with Maneesha statement having all three environments on one server, it is not recommended to have all the three servers on one machine. As Yogesh, and Luc mentioned earlier please have seperate servers atleast two servers one for production and other for Test and Dev. I am not sure why he mentioned useless and wastage but that is not how I recommend you to setup your servers, please isolate them as much as you can.

Coming to the procedure of creating test/dev from production database depends upon your current configuration, Intially you take a backup of production database and create new dev/test database then remove all the sensitive data from the database such as credit card information.. also change the setup so dev/test don't refere to the same paths or configuration as produciton database.
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RE: NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

Hi Maneesha,

Thanks for your suggestion. It makes sense. I have quick question. If we create test database for NAV 2016 from Production what is the steps we should follow? Please advise including dev environment procedure for the test database.

Best Regards,
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Maneesha 5,891 on at

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RE: NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

Dear David Stockill ,

There is no issue , even you are managing all 3 environment from 1 server , there is no harm,

Even we have setup every thin in to one server , its useless & wastage when you are creating several servers for one purposes, so you can keep it all in to one server dont worry

But keep it mind , assign some acceptable hardware or through VMWARE

Eg: Ram , Space
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RE: NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

Hi David,

To add to Yogesh remark: it's best to isolate production from any other environment, be it test and/or dev. In this way you guarentee that all resources, e.g. cpus, memory, etc., are fully available for the operation and possible mistakes - f.e. updating the wrong database - are as low as possible.

Next to that I would like to add: let each environment have it's own resources so that it mimics production environment. That's the setup we use. But of course, if budget is restricted you could combine test and dev on samee resources.
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Yogesh Kulkarni_ 1,762 on at

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RE: NAV 2016 Installation Environment for Live, Test & Development

Hello David,

It is always good idea to have separate Development and Production environment.

Always have a backup (Import/export objects and database) on regular basis. So that if something goes wrong, you can restore, at any point of time.

-Yogesh Kulkarni

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