Joel has some info on his blog... http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/10/16/vhd.aspx and this one from James... http://blogs.msdn.com/jjameson/archive/2007/06/09/virtual-server-issues.aspx and Microsoft's official supportability statement on Virtual environments... http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/01/05/virtual-server-2005-r2-support-for-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007.aspx
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:12:34 +0900Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] MOSS & V-Motion This isn’t the first time I have heard bad things about running SQL Server virtualised in general. A few people I have met swear that it should be avoided, something about the rate at which SQL Server needs to read and write from disk. Does anyone else have any more opinions/comments on this or any online references you can provide discussing the problems with running SQL Server in a virtualised environment? Also, what’s Microsoft’s official guidance for this ? Sezai KömürSenior Developer - BEng, BSc - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - http://www.moss2007.com.au/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave PorterSent: Wednesday, 6 February 2008 1:55 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: [OzMOSS] MOSS & V-Motion I have seen several issues with MOSS when you virtualize SQL. It is not recommended. You can virtualize the WFE's, but I have not seen SQL do well in a virtual environment.What are the specs on the virtual environment? Dave P. Subject: [OzMOSS] MOSS & V-MotionDate: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:03:08 +1100From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: listserver@ozMOSS.com Hi all, We currently have a client who has a virtual SharePoint environment. Virtual Web/Application Server and a virtual SQL Server. We are seeing, when the web/application server is v-motion, a whole stack of database connectivity errors appear in the event log, the SharePoint logs bloat to massive size and owstimer.exe is peaking out. My initial investigation has revealed that while v-motion is happening, network connectivity between the web/application server and the SQL server is lost. Has anyone encountered this before, as this seems like a common setup and if so, is there a work around for this (we have currently set the web/application and SQL server not to v-motion and be static). Thanks, - Adelaide SharePoint User group - http://www.aspug.org.au (Comming Soon!) - My Blog: http://www.danielbrown.id.au ý Please consider the envrionment before printing this email. ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject.Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject.Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject.Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
