RE: Query re Virtual CPUs

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Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread John Cook
2 CPUs should be more than enough, 16 GB of RAM is overkill. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Agreed. With ~25 active users, and even a shared SQL instance, that server would be fine with 4-6GB RAM * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:11 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: 2 CPUs

Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread Kevin Lundy
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 was not happy with performance and I was the only user. I would suggest 32G. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:19 AM,

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
Interesting. At $Work we're running Sharepoint 2010 Foundation for ~10 users on an ESX 4.1 VM with 2GB RAM and 1 vCPU, and it's plenty fast. The database is located on another server. With only one calendar and a couple of document libraries, I'll be the first to admit that we don't push it

Re: Query re Virtual CPUs

2011-09-14 Thread Kevin Lundy
IMO putting the SQL on the same server is what pushes the memory up. Yep, isn't virtualization great for maximizing hardware. To the OP, I would start with 16 as a test, but be prepared to increase the memory to 32. Or maybe consider 2 guests. 1 for SQL and 1 for SharePoint. Kevin On Wed,

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