Re: SBS 2008: virtualisation using Vmware

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On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 06:53:50 -0800, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
<charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Thanks so much for clarifying those questions!

jas

Lots of questions there.

5 Gb is too small for any but the smallest production environment, IMO. Fine
for testing, but just too resource constrained for production. 2 GB for the
second server is also pretty small, unless your SQL needs are not at all
extensive.

Performance degradation - some, but not a lot, IME. Assuming you use fixed
disks, and dedicated NICs, and a good disk subsystem.

NICs - you need at least two. One for management of the parent partition,
one for the SBS network. Having three wouldn't hurt, especially if you're
doing lots of I/O to that SQL server.

Fixed disks - always in production. There's a big difference in peformance
between fixed and dynamic.
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