Hi guys!
After small discussion with Vlad Catrinescu regarding my question he advised me to create this discussion 🙂
I have my home desktop:
CPU: i7 3770k(4 cores 8 threads )
RAM: 32GB(1600MHZ)
HDD: 6xhdd in RAID0 (because of test- no need RAID10 or RAID5 –need the fastest one 🙂 )
I’m trying to build my test machine for learning.
I’d like to have :
2xWPE on MS Server 2008 R2
1xAPP(+Cluster Witness) on Server 2008 R2
2xSQL2012 (fail over cluster) on Server 2008 R2
1x Exchange 2013 on MS Server 2012
The questions are:
1.What is best practice to share my resources(RAM, CPU) between VMs.
2. What minimum resources I need to leave for Host OS MS Server 2008R2
All applications SharePoint2010, SQL2012, Exchange2013 and OS 2008/2012 are free trial evaluation 180days.
Leave your suggestions/ ideas….. 🙂
Thank you!
For test purposes with regards to cores, DC can go with 1, Exchange can do with 1 or 2, SQL can go with 2 (or 4), SharePoint with 2 or 4.
I would also change SQL to 4GB RAM (no artificial limit, SQL will figure that out for you with a single instance), and bump the WFE/App up to 8GB. Your DC can run with 512MB – 1GB.
Thank you! After your post and my issue with drivers for Server 2012 I decided to put everything on WIn8. 🙂
I did it! 🙂
I bought 256GB SSD Samsung 840 PRO (250$). Thank you Trevor for great article http://www.expta.com/2013/04/updated-blistering-fast-hyper-v-2012.html. realy helped me.
Steps:
1.Installed MS Server2012 datacenter – issues with raid controler, bus….can’t find drivers for my motherboard- offitialy does not support Server2012. Tried to put drivers for Win8, Win7 nothig. So, Server 2012 wasn’t work for me. 🙁
Installed Windows 8 and enabled Hyper-V feature.
Created VMs:
1x WFE 4 cores, 6GB RAM, 50GB on SSD
1x APP 4 cores, 6GB RAM, 50GB on SSD
1x SQL 8 cores, 8GB RAM (limitted RAM for SQL instance to 5014MB),50 GB on SSD
1x EXCH 4 cores, 4GB RAM, 35GB on SSD
DC 2 cores, 2GB RAM, 50GB on RAID 10(4hdd)
Any sugestions to change it? I’m not sure about cores. But it seems to work good. SSD is going great job.
Thank you!
I would honestly drop the SQL cluster and bump up the RAM on the SharePoint VMs, then drop from 3 SharePoint servers down to 2 (1 WFE, 1 App). You’ll get better performance out of SharePoint.
I have i7 3840 QM 32 GB Dell laptop 2 TB HD My 2013 En Host in 2012 Hyper-V Windows 8 Professional distribute RAM and resources like this
AD/Domain 1.5GB Ram 1 Processor 25 GB HD
Exchange 2.0GB Processor 1 50GB HD
SQL Server 2012 SP1 4GB 2 Processor 100GB HD
SharePoint App 6GB 2 Processor 100GB HD
SharePoint WFE 6GB 2 Processor 100GB HD
Project Server 2013 2GB 50GB HD
VS 2012
Office 2013
Visio 2013
Project 2013
SharePoint Manager 2013
Fiddler
ReSharper 7.1
Cheers,
