We have a SharePoint production environment and would like to clone that environment for testing/development. We have 1 WFE, 1 Application Server and 1 SQL Server in the production environment.
I found some blog posts referencing how to clone the environment but none of them see to be working. The steps we have completed so far are below. We are using VMware VShpere 5.1.
1. Cloned all production VMs and gave them new IP addresses and names before bringing them onto the network.
2. Used sp_dropserver and sp_addserver to rename the internal SQL Server data. (Restarted the SQL instance)
3. Updated all registry settings on the WFE and Application servers that pointed to the old database server.
4. Ran the stsadm -o renameserver command
We are having the most trouble from step 4. Anytime that we run this command it is modifying our information for the production environment. We have also noticed that any of the modifications we make in the Central Admin for the test environment are being applied to the production environment. Any and all help is much appreciated!!
