Go on let’s have em, what laptops are you all running and do you recommend for SP 2013 development ? The MBP a contender (surely not)!… Is anyone surviving on 16gb ?
UPDATE! Can you also add your laptop and configuration to this list : (User “Add to List”). http://list.ly/list/73V-sharepoint-2013-laptops. If someone has the same one, just vote it up.
In my old laptop (Dell Inspiron) I used to have seperate SQL and PDC, but it became a pain as I also need to share them with others on the team. However, it was the only way to get half decent performance then (shared SQL).
Now, I have enough grunt to have completely self contained VMs. It’s so much easier to manage and snapshot at various stages.
We also have a few farms at Cloudshare to perform our main functional testing. Works nice, but can be a bit slow.
I am not a fan of snapshotting either, can really slow VMs down after a while. I have a separate DC running in a standalone VM. It will chug along happily with 300MB of ram and all my other dev VMs are connected to that domain. I also run a free mail server called MailEnable on it for mail testing (haven’t really needed full Exchange all that much).
I find you get strange behaviour in SP running it on a domain controller, you can’t do the security properly and end up running everything as admin a lot of the time to get around quirks.
Mark
Looks like I need to catch up with you on that score! This begs a few questions though: are you provision the various vms with differencing disks? Also, where is your PDC; or can I assume are all the vms self contained and each living with its own DC?
I don’t trust snapshotting to I backup before I apply CUs or SPs.
I really LOVE Hyper-V it’s so stable and fast. The snapshots have only failed me once.
I use it lots to test and demo DocRead from my Dell Precision M4700 lappy. Here’s my lovely VMS!
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Mark
I agree with Vlad and others that win8 hyper-v is good although the snapshotting is worse than useless ( had to rebuild a sp2010 vm from backup recently. I have gone for a PCSpecialist Vortex III 17″ HD, i7 32 GB of RAM. My vms reside on a Samsung Hybrid drive sata 6 although I recently moved my DC vm onto a my boot drive (Kingston Hyperx SSD). The downside, it weighs a tonne and the ‘brick’ PSU is 220 rated watts. But it does perform and I can give sp2013 16+ ram and still have some headroom.
Be good if there is a blog post out there for running SharePoint 2013 lean and mean on our Laptops ….
Wow … what a lot of responses!