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 vCPU, and the site grew to over 40GB in size. This was supporting probably 40 sharepoint users. When I got budget, we did a complete infrastructure upgrade. The WSS database was put into a MOSS 2007 farm with separate front end, clustered SQL running on SAS SAN drives, and index server. I can tell you that performance only improved marginally.
I would allocate 4-6GB and then move up only if performance dictated. Robert ~ 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
