Integrated Test Platform Design Based On Virtualization Technology

In recent years, the strategy of data centralization has become a common practice in China and IT systems of various scales have been emerging continuously. The enterprise testing environment is responsible for the testing procedures of application systems before it goes to its production stages. Facing the exponential growth of the number of IT systems, the enterprise testing environment for pre-production testing has become the key element in ensuring the safe production and enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises. It is essential to establish an integrated testing platform of high efficiency, low-energy consumption and strong compatibility for enterprise IT systems during the construction and development of IT in enterprises.The deployment mode of traditional IT system development testing environment is done individually in accordance with their own business systems. Once the business system is running in a stable mode, its development and testing environment will be of an idle state, the deployment model of which would consume an excessive amount of enterprise IT device resources. If the deployment mode were to be conducted as of described above continuously, it wound definitely result in the over-investment of substantial human and material resources for management, an over-investment in the maintenance of corresponding IT devices, and would thus reduce the efficiency of enterprises, leading to increasing costs in running the business, and even affect the entire enterprise's competitiveness. During the current recession years, almost all companies have been focusing upon cost control and the improvement of efficiency in order to get through their financial difficulties. Therefore, the way of introducing a new form of technology in changing the current deployment mode of the development testing environment so as to reduce stubbornly high operating costs has become a serious concern of both theoretically and practically significance during enterprise IT development.Virtualization technology's competence in integrating hardware resources has been recognized in the field of IT. In this paper, the concept of constructing an integrated testing platform for enterprise IT systems based on virtualization technology is proposed via the research on it, dealing with the problem of the high costs in the development of testing environments of enterprise IT systems. The basic requirements for the integrated platform based on virtualization technology, operation mode, project design, realization of the platform and many other aspects are explained in detail. A concept is further proposed that the development testing environment of enterprise IT system should change from "single-user" to "shared platform", from "single-mode "to" multi-mode".This paper is divided into six chapters:The first chapter sheds light upon the investigative background, literary review and provides a description of the paper's framework. The second chapter is about the study in the integration of virtualization technology-based testing environment. In the third chapter, the requirements of the integrated virtualization technology-based testing platform is analyzed. ChapterⅣdescribes the design of the integrated testing platform based on virtualization technology. ChapterⅤis concerned with the realization of the integrated testing platform based on virtualization technology. Finally, the conclusions and prospects are proposed.The research results present an alternative to the deployment mode of traditional IT system development testing environment, in integrating the IT devices originally used alone as a shared platform, it improves the efficiency of the development and testing of business systems, and it provides good reference in finding solutions in reducing operating costs, thus improving efficiency and enhancing the competitiveness of the enterprise as a consequence.