We have several landscapes in one of our client site like development, quality, sand box, training, release and proto type. We would like to build few interfaces using XI. However we need to have XI in each landscape to do so.
Since XI is mostly client dependent (with exceptions ofcourse), We would like to have Development, Prototype, Sand box and training as different clients in a single XI box. and have one each for quality and production.
For example:
clients in box 1: 010 - Prototype, 020 - Devt, 030 - sand box and 040 - training
clients in box 2: 010 - release landscape test client and 020 - production landscape testing
box 3: only one client for production
Obviously this would save a lot of cost in terms of hardware. The question is:
1. Is this feasible
2. What are the pros and cons of this approach
3. Any other alternatives to reduce cost.
4. Any examples of other sites using this approach