diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 720e454a069..9015cf1ad2c 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -193,7 +193,15 @@ def provision(config,
   raise ArgumentError.new('update_command is required') if update_command == 'required'
   raise ArgumentError.new('update_tracking_file is required') if update_tracking_file == 'required'
   raise ArgumentError.new('install_command is required') if install_command == 'required'
-  config.vm.provision "bats dependencies", type: "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
+  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
+    # Give the box more memory and cpu because our tests are beasts!
+    v.memory = Integer(ENV['VAGRANT_MEMORY'] || 8192)
+    v.cpus = Integer(ENV['VAGRANT_CPUS'] || 4)
+  end
+  config.vm.synced_folder "#{Dir.home}/.gradle/caches", "/home/vagrant/.gradle/caches",
+    create: true,
+    owner: "vagrant"
+  config.vm.provision "dependencies", type: "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
     set -e
     set -o pipefail
 
@@ -256,6 +264,18 @@ def provision(config,
       /tmp/bats/install.sh /usr
       rm -rf /tmp/bats
     }
+
+    installed gradle || {
+      echo "==> Installing gradle"
+      curl -o /tmp/gradle.zip -L https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.3-bin.zip
+      unzip /tmp/gradle.zip -d /opt
+      rm -rf /tmp/gradle.zip 
+      ln -s /opt/gradle-3.3/bin/gradle /usr/bin/gradle
+      # make nfs mounted gradle home dir writeable
+      chown vagrant:vagrant /home/vagrant/.gradle
+    }
+
+
     cat \<\<VARS > /etc/profile.d/elasticsearch_vars.sh
 export ZIP=/elasticsearch/distribution/zip/build/distributions
 export TAR=/elasticsearch/distribution/tar/build/distributions
@@ -265,6 +285,7 @@ export BATS=/project/build/bats
 export BATS_UTILS=/project/build/bats/utils
 export BATS_TESTS=/project/build/bats/tests
 export BATS_ARCHIVES=/project/build/bats/archives
+export GRADLE_HOME=/opt/gradle-3.3
 VARS
     cat \<\<SUDOERS_VARS > /etc/sudoers.d/elasticsearch_vars
 Defaults   env_keep += "ZIP"
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/vagrant/VagrantTestPlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/vagrant/VagrantTestPlugin.groovy
index 05632b9b26b..f5974d7c0f8 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/vagrant/VagrantTestPlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/vagrant/VagrantTestPlugin.groovy
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class VagrantTestPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
 
     private static final BATS = 'bats'
     private static final String BATS_TEST_COMMAND ="cd \$BATS_ARCHIVES && sudo bats --tap \$BATS_TESTS/*.$BATS"
+    private static final String PLATFORM_TEST_COMMAND ="rm -rf ~/elasticsearch && rsync -r /elasticsearch/ ~/elasticsearch && cd ~/elasticsearch && \$GRADLE_HOME/bin/gradle test integTest"
 
     @Override
     void apply(Project project) {
@@ -327,6 +328,17 @@ class VagrantTestPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         }
     }
 
+    private static void createPlatformTestTask(Project project) {
+        project.tasks.create('platformTest') {
+            group 'Verification'
+            description "Test unit and integ tests on different platforms using vagrant.\n" +
+                    "    Specify the vagrant boxes to test using the gradle property 'vagrant.boxes'.\n" +
+                    "    'all' can be used to test all available boxes. The available boxes are: \n" +
+                    "    ${BOXES}"
+            dependsOn 'vagrantCheckVersion'
+        }
+    }
+
     private static void createVagrantTasks(Project project) {
         createCleanTask(project)
         createStopTask(project)
@@ -337,6 +349,7 @@ class VagrantTestPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         createCheckVirtualBoxVersionTask(project)
         createPrepareVagrantTestEnvTask(project)
         createPackagingTestTask(project)
+        createPlatformTestTask(project)
     }
 
     private static void createVagrantBoxesTasks(Project project) {
@@ -360,6 +373,9 @@ class VagrantTestPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         assert project.tasks.packagingTest != null
         Task packagingTest = project.tasks.packagingTest
 
+        assert project.tasks.platformTest != null
+        Task platformTest = project.tasks.platformTest
+
         /*
          * We always use the main project.rootDir as Vagrant's current working directory (VAGRANT_CWD)
          * so that boxes are not duplicated for every Gradle project that use this VagrantTestPlugin.
@@ -425,7 +441,8 @@ class VagrantTestPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
                 finalizedBy halt
                 command BATS_TEST_COMMAND
             }
-            TaskExecutionAdapter reproduceListener = new TaskExecutionAdapter() {
+
+            TaskExecutionAdapter packagingReproListener = new TaskExecutionAdapter() {
                 @Override
                 void afterExecute(Task task, TaskState state) {
                     if (state.failure != null) {
@@ -435,15 +452,40 @@ class VagrantTestPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
                 }
             }
             packaging.doFirst {
-                project.gradle.addListener(reproduceListener)
+                project.gradle.addListener(packagingReproListener)
             }
             packaging.doLast {
-                project.gradle.removeListener(reproduceListener)
+                project.gradle.removeListener(packagingReproListener)
             }
-
             if (project.extensions.esvagrant.boxes.contains(box)) {
                 packagingTest.dependsOn(packaging)
             }
+
+            Task platform = project.tasks.create("vagrant${boxTask}#platformTest", VagrantCommandTask) {
+                boxName box
+                environmentVars vagrantEnvVars
+                dependsOn up
+                finalizedBy halt
+                args 'ssh', boxName, '--command', PLATFORM_TEST_COMMAND + " -Dtests.seed=${-> project.extensions.esvagrant.formattedTestSeed}"
+            }
+            TaskExecutionAdapter platformReproListener = new TaskExecutionAdapter() {
+                @Override
+                void afterExecute(Task task, TaskState state) {
+                    if (state.failure != null) {
+                        println "REPRODUCE WITH: gradle ${platform.path} " +
+                            "-Dtests.seed=${project.extensions.esvagrant.formattedTestSeed} "
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            packaging.doFirst {
+                project.gradle.addListener(platformReproListener)
+            }
+            packaging.doLast {
+                project.gradle.removeListener(platformReproListener)
+            }
+            if (project.extensions.esvagrant.boxes.contains(box)) {
+                platformTest.dependsOn(platform)
+            }
         }
     }
 }