Hi Brian, I pretty much recommend that people run TFS in only virtual environments. The reason is disaster recovery. With base and differencing disk you have a great way of doing backups to entire systems which can easily be restored to any virtual server host.
The trick is to not under resource your virtual server host, but you can actually have a fairly effective installation between 1GB-2GB of RAM (on the guest) if the host itself has a good I/O system. Watch out for loading the images onto a SAN, in my experience a SAN can be problematic for a VM. You should also look at having a sysprep image for build servers if you undertake a lot of projects. The build server itself is what tends to get dirty over time so you should create one or each project and then just turn them off when you aren't using them (virtualised of course). You can actually fit a standard .NET 2.0/3.0 build server in 512MB RAM. In fact we have a .NET 3.5 build server running in 512MB of RAM and it seems to work OK. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian H. Madsen Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2007 9:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzTFS] Virtual TFS? Hey Guys, I'm doing a lot of testing at the moment - predominantly service testing - to see how much my server can handle. At this stage I know I cannot possibly run everything i want on the single server, but i don't use all services consistently..eg. some services aren't used for weeks on end. That's why i wanted to take a look at virtualisation for what i'm running. Before i get to this stage and start building my virtual servers/images I was wondering if anybody here has had any experience with TFS in a virtual environment? Anything i should look out for? Anything you can recommend? Any help accepted ;) Regards Brian H. Madsen Microsoft MVP Visual Developer ASP.Net Community http://www.csharpzealot.com Blog http://www.msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen OzTFS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. View the web archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net OzTFS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. View the web archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
