Re: SBS 2008

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Just out of curiosity, have you run them on Hyper-V? I'm running the latest RC in a virtual server 2005 instance, but hyper-v is something of a different beast and I haven't had a chance to provision a win2k8 server testing yet...

-Cliff


"kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ.SBS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eC2m4mCHJHA.728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patrick D. wrote:
Hi Cliff

In the meantime I created some new ideas:
I think, that I will virtualize my entire SBS 2008 domain. That
means, that SBS will be virtual. And of course I can run MOSS or any
other server app on a different virtual server.
My question might be a little early:
Have you seen SBS 2008 as a virtual instance? I think for a very small
network it should work fine, isn't it?

Patrick

I ran all the betas rcs and RTM (Eval) in Virtual. Aside from the FAX requiring additional software and that part being MS 'unsupported', it worked fine for all the test environement load I could but on it. Still you'd need to scale the Host server correctly to provide adequate reources for all your Physical and virtual environments *plus* a little extra. Add seperate phyical NICs for each heavy network IO guest. Same concept for your Disks.



"Cliff Galiher" wrote:

Personally I still wouldn't run MOSS on SBS. Especially if you are
going to virtualize...just install MOSS in a virtual instance
instead. If the hardware can handle it then great...the virtual
server will be solid. But if later you discover it can't...or you
grow...you can move the virtual server to another machine (gotta
love the portability of virtual servers!) with no reconfiguration.
If you install MOSS on SBS then that option is no longer available
to you. SBS just does enough already and has enough unique
configuration settings and issues that 3rd-party apps (even MS apps)
can break that I'm reluctant to ever tell anybody "it's okay, just
do it."

As far as hyper-v, same applies. The hypervisor passes some OS
level stuff to the subordinate OS's. And since SBS is something of
a unique beast, you may end up with unexplainable behavior. Again,
this is all still in the "new world" realm as SBS is unreleased, but
if I were even *considering* SBS and Hyper-V, I'd be making SBS a
guest OS, not the host.

Hope that helps,

-Cliff


"Patrick D." <PatrickD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Cliff

Thanks for your feedback.

Usually there will be only one person (please don't laugh)
connected to SBS
2008.
That means, that SBS shouldn't have any problems to run Exchange
and MOSS at
the same time.
But I don't know, if SBS 2008 technicly supports to run the above
applications.
Can you tell me this?

Hyper-V:
SBS 2008 will be the host OS. Additional virtual servers will be
started temporarily for testing reasons.

Patrick

"Cliff Galiher" wrote:

I would not recommend installing MOSS on SBS. I'd purchase SBS2k8
premium
and install MOSS on the second member server instead. MOSS can be
a resource hog because of its search capabilities, so really, it
is best left
off your main server.

As far as hyper-v goes, I don't believe SBS's virtualization
support has been made public yet. But for clarification, were you
looking at having SBS
be the host OS or the client OS?

-Cliff


"Patrick D." <PatrickD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

1. Can I install Sharepoint Server 2007 on Small Business Server
2008? (I was told, that SBS 2003 does not support Sharepoint
Portal Server 2003
with Exchange 2003)
2. Does SBS 2008 support Hyper-V?

Thanks for your feedback.

Patrick

--
/kj

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