RE: Virtualization preferences for a new SharePoint Farm

2012-02-23 Thread Trevor Andrew
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

RE: Virtualization preferences for a new SharePoint Farm

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Grist
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

RE: Virtualization preferences for a new SharePoint Farm

2012-02-23 Thread Nigel Witherdin
Hi, I prefer VmWare, simply because I am more comfortable with it - most places I have worked at use ESX as their virtualization solution. I think it is still recommended that your SQL cluster is physical, though it works ok when virtualised as well (my current employer has SQL 2008 R2

RE: Virtualization preferences for a new SharePoint Farm

2012-02-23 Thread Matthew Cosier
+1 If you have the luxury of massive IOPS then you'd just virtualize the SQL cluster as well. Virtualisation has come a very long way, especially now we have the ability to run 64bit guests. If you do have fast disk, the benefits of virtualisation massively outweigh physical machines

RE: Virtualization preferences for a new SharePoint Farm

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Grist
Hey Nigel, Is the dell PDF where you got the IOP requirements or anther resource? Regards, Chris Grist | Senior Technical Consultant MCITP, MCPD, MCTS, VCP, CCA [cid:imageadcad5.PNG@8815fff5.49a1e3d6] Applications | Infrastructure | Consulting Tel 1300 LOFTUS | Mob 0432 898 500 Ground Floor,