Dev, Test and Prod Environments in a Stand Alone Installation

My company is trying to deploy/implement MOSS 2007. The requirements are to install the 3 different environments (Development, Test and Production) in a Stand Alone installation in a single server.

Is this installation configuration possible?

Can you point to documentation on how this can be implemented? or why this is not possible?



Thank you very much (we are in a very tight schedule).

If you must use a single physical server, I would suggest taking asingle

If you must use a single physical server, I would suggest taking a
single physical server, and deploying 3 standalone virtual machines,
each of which gets one of you environments. This will allow to to
manage security with independence (i.e. developers could be prevented
from loging on to production environment but with adminsitrative
access, but be given less restrictive access to test and dev). It also
gives you completely seperate environments so you can be sure your
solution files and dlls are deployed as you think they are being
deployed. You could also deploy a developer IDE to dev, since
typically sharepoint needs to be deployed on the server with your dev
with your IDE (yes not good practice in most dev environments, but
pretty standard in sharepoint although there are some "clever"
workarounds involving copying dlls. etc), you can also later easily
migrate to seperate boxes later if you find performance or growth
needs to be managed.
Make sure you allocate enough memory, as this is a pretty memory
intense deployment (3 or 4 OSs depending on how you approach
virtualization with a "Host" windows install, or a virtualization
Kernal deployment tha uses a thin OS to manage the virtualizaiton
layer.)

to install the 3 different environments (Development, Test and Production) =
in a Stand Alone installation in a single server.
s is not possible?
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Thank you for your response

Thank you very much for your response. it is very helpful.

Thanks