Production and Non-Production Environments
The VMware software development and release processes contain mechanisms to ensure
that the non-production code is removed or deactivated before deploying into
production.
The infrastructure is partitioned into production and non-production environments. The
VMware Cloud services development is performed in non-production environments with
documented procedures for testing and validation of updates before the release. The
production environments contain the underlying infrastructure management software,
customer data, and customer virtual machines.
Production and non-production environments
are logically and physically separated. The development, quality assurance, and
production environments use separate equipment and environments, which are managed
separately.
Production data is not replicated or used in
non-production environments.