Although it would probably run fine with that number of users (depending on use), 8GB is the recommended minimum for production. In class, our instructor recommended adding 1GB for each additional service application you are planning on running. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx
We just migrated and have a small farm of 1800 users with a physical BE SQL server (brand new box to last 5+ years, dual 6 core AMDS and 64GB, we stack more than SP on our SQL) and two virtual (on Hyper-V) FE Webs with 4 procs and 12GB RAM each. Seems to be holding up well so far (knocks heavily on wood), but we haven't added a ton of service apps above getting our farm migrated from what was already running on 2007. BTW, I tried giving the SP FE Webs smaller HDDs at first, but the Sharepoint Health monitor complains if you don't have a ton of free drive space, as per the technet doc. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] 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/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:11 AM, John Cook <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 2 CPUs should be more than enough, 16 GB of RAM is overkill. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 under Windows Server 2008 R2 and will be catering for circa 10-25 users. It would also be hosting the SQL Server 2008 Standard installation. Would 2 vCPUs be enough for running Sharepoint 2010? Thanks Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
