I wrote a blog post on how I get my SharePoint development done with a Mac and I was interested in some feedback. The setup works great for me but I occasionally get bogged down with disk space issues. If anyone has a suggestions or advice with how they do it, it would be much appreciated. I’m considering off-loading the AD controller to a cloud based environment since I’m connected 99% of time I’m developing. Perhaps a small Azure VM would do the trick.
You can find the original post here:Â http://s7sys.biz/sp13devonmacÂ
Thanks for the thoughts!
~Jason
Jason, which mac do you have, I didn’t see that in the article.
I have a 2011 2.5 ghz i7 old style macbook pro with 16GB ram.
I replaced the internal hard drive with an Intel 600GB SSD when they came out a while back.
I see that Crucial has a 960GB SSD that’s now cheaper and faster than the intel was so I may upgrade to get more performance at some point.
Performance of SP2010 has been fine, SP2013, with search, was a complete Dog until I bumped the VM’s ram up to 12 GB.Â
For backups, I started with Mozy, then moved to back blaze, backblaze doesn’t backup VM’s by default, but you can change that. Â One trick I use, is to create an image, get it right then take a snapshot.
What this does is “freeze” the files so that my incremental backups only need to copy the difference files generated by the snapshot.
Every 6 months or so I delete then recreate the snapshot.
