RE: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-15 Thread Pierre Camilleri
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Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread pierre . camilleri
Hi all We are planning to deploy Sharepoint 2010 on a virtual machine running under VMware ESXi 4.1 and we were going to allocate the following resouces to it: 16 GB RAM 2 vCPUs This Sharepoint 2010 installation will be running under Windows Server 2008 R2 and will be catering for circa

Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread John Cook
Sent: Wed Sep 14 06:01:49 2011 Subject: Query re Virtual CPUs Hi all We are planning to deploy Sharepoint 2010 on a virtual machine running under VMware ESXi 4.1 and we were going to allocate the following resouces to it: 16 GB RAM 2 vCPUs This Sharepoint 2010 installation will be running

Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*Sent*: Wed Sep 14 06:01:49 2011 *Subject*: Query re Virtual CPUs Hi all We are planning to deploy Sharepoint 2010 on a virtual machine running under VMware ESXi 4.1 and we were going to allocate the following resouces to it: 16 GB RAM 2 vCPUs This Sharepoint 2010 installation

Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread Kevin Lundy
Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent*: Wed Sep 14 06:01:49 2011 *Subject*: Query re Virtual CPUs Hi all We are planning to deploy Sharepoint 2010 on a virtual machine running under VMware ESXi 4.1 and we were going to allocate the following resouces to it: 16 GB RAM 2

Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread John Cook
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wed Sep 14 08:13:25 2011 Subject: Re: Query re Virtual CPUs On this rare circumstance, I am going to disagree with ASB. While tech editing a book, I ran this exact scenario. With the SQL and SharePoint on the same virtual guest allocated 16G, I

Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread Richard Stovall
...@fosterclark.com *To*: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent*: Wed Sep 14 06:01:49 2011 *Subject*: Query re Virtual CPUs Hi all We are planning to deploy Sharepoint 2010 on a virtual machine running under VMware ESXi 4.1 and we were going to allocate the following

Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread Kevin Lundy
-- *From*: pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com *To*: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent*: Wed Sep 14 06:01:49 2011 *Subject*: Query re Virtual CPUs Hi all We are planning to deploy Sharepoint 2010 on a virtual machine running

RE: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
the technet doc. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Query re Virtual CPUs Agreed. With ~25 active users, and even a shared SQL instance, that server would be fine with 4-6GB RAM ASB http://XeeMe.com

Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread Robert Cato
I setup a WSS3 (previous version) single server farm using the included MSDE database. I had no budget and used VMware Server on a Windows 2003 build, 8GB RAM, and 5 146G drives in a Raid5 setup. I had a couple of low use (WSUS and DPM) VMs on the host also. The WSS VM only had 1G of RAM, single

RE: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
to be. If you have 1GB of content, then 16GB of RAM is more than enough. Cheers Ken From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2011 8:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Query re Virtual CPUs IMO putting the SQL on the same server is what pushes the memory up. Yep