The first things I would look at is:
1) What do your infrastructure guys know/use/support/use for other applications. 2) Do you have backup/dr that supports either or both of the hypervisors. From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Trevor Andrew Sent: Friday, 24 February 2012 1:43 PM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: RE: Virtualization preferences for a new SharePoint Farm Hi All, I should preface my questions by saying that I am *not* an infrastructure specialist, but a SharePoint Architect and Conslultant, and am in the process of specifying the infrastructure for a new SharePoint 2010 production farm within the organisation I work, and the question of any virtualization preferences for the farm have arisen in two senses: 1. We are free to choose either VMWare ESX Server Technology, or Microsoft HyperV. I'd appreciate any feedback positive or negative on either platform. I have personally had a recent bad experience in the VMWare world with the VMWare "Ballooning" memory management causing a SharePoint installation to run very poorly, but I assume that was simply inadvisable resource allocation by those managing the environment. However any advice one way or the other about the preferred virtualization platform would be much appreciated. 2. My recollection from several years ago, is that it would generally have been considered wise to recommend that the SQL Server cluster supporting such a SharePoint Farm remain on physical servers. What are others doing these days? Are you tending to virtualise your SQL Server Server clusters supporting SharePoint, or also virtualizing these as well? This cluster will be a new SQL Server 2008 R2 cluster, as the other SQL Server instances / clusters within the organisation are not of an appropriate version or architecture to support SharePoint 2010. Any feedback on these issues would be much appreciated. Cheers, Trevor Andrew Chris Grist | Senior Technical Consultant MCITP, MCPD, MCTS, VCP, CCA [cid:imagedb9184.PNG@719f12c5.4580e967] Applications | Infrastructure | Consulting Tel 1300 LOFTUS | Mob 0432 898 500 Ground Floor, 175 Fullarton Road, Dulwich SA 5065 Email chris.gr...@loftusit.com.au<mailto:chris.gr...@loftusit.com.au> | Web http://www.loftusit.com.au NOTE: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and may contain information intended only for the addressee(s). If you have received this communication in error, you must not copy or distribute any part of it or otherwise disclose its contents to anyone - please notify Loftus IT immediately. Loftus IT does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the information provided herein. No representation is made that email and any files transmitted with it are virus-free - virus scanning is the responsibility of the recipient and is recommended.
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