Hi, You cannot install more than 1 instance (farm) of SharePoint Server 2010 on a single server/VM. For testing purposes you can have a SQL VM with more than one instance of SQL Server (one for each SharePoint Farm) or use a single instance to host multiple farms.
For DEV and TEST environments you don't require any "real" licenses (server or CALs) if you have an MSDN or TechNet subscription to get the software, you can also get trial versions of the server software. Your staging and production environments would require proper licenses for the servers and clients. The minimums are documented but your particular requirements may be unique, you can refer to this Performance and capacity management article to determine what yours should be: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262971 Best practices for SQL: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh292622 Here are some various deployment scenarios you can review: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303424 Here is guidance specifically related to a virtual machine configuration: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff621103 Microsoft has an already built SharePoint Server 2010 Demonstration Environment for Hyper-V which consists of three (3) VMs: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27417 Regards, Wes From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Chan Sent: May-31-12 8:25 AM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: SharePoint 2010 in VM Hi, My organisation has the following design: In Virtual Machine #1, create two instances: - one instance for DEV MS SP Web Server - one instance for TEST MS SP Web Server In Virtual Machine #2, create two instances: - one instance for DEV MS SP Application Server - one instance for TEST MS SP Application Server We know the Microsoft's minimum requirements for SharePoint web server, application server, database serveer etc... But, we are not able to find out - Microsoft's minimum requirements for VM instances (e.g. how many cores process, RAM, ?80 GB for each instance??) - we need one SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition Server licence for these MS SP Web Servers (or we need two) in one VM. - any performance articles for using 2 SharePoint instances in one VM. - any links related to using SharePoint 2010 in 2 instances in VM. I will be very appreciated if anyone is able to provide me any feedbacks or comments. (We also have a physical server contains a SQL Server 2008 R2 - the setting for this server is fine for us.) (We have CAL licences - which allow all of our users to access our SharePoint 2010 DEV and Test Systems) Thanks, Doug
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