SharePoint 2010 & Virtualisation

Alan Richards

About Me

• Information Systems Manager @ West Hatch High School

• Worked in education for over 17 years

• Led teams in the early adoption of Microsoft systems

• Regular presenter at events

• SharePoint MVP

Topics• Virtualisation quickie• SQL• SharePoint

Virtualisation Quickie• Multiple virtual machines on a host• Shared resources– Network– Memory– CPU

Virtualisation Quickie• Centralised Storage– Failover cluster– Redundancy– Live Migration

How It Stacks Up

Failover Cluster• 5 Servers in a failover cluster

– Setup storage• LUNS• Connection

– Install Hyper-V & Failover clustering roles and features– Validate cluster

• Runs tests• Simulates failures• Required for Microsoft support

– Create cluster

Management

SQL Virtualisation• Core to your SharePoint farm• SQL fail = SharePoint fail– Node failover not DB– Patching– Service Packs

SQL Virtualisation• 2 x SQL virtual servers• Shared storage– Failover cluster• Has to be validated

– Live migration

SQL Virtualisation• Failover cluster manager– MSTDC– SQL Server

SQL Virtualisation

• Witness disk

• MSDTC storage

• SQL Server storage

SQL Virtualisation• Key considerations– Storage space– Setting up LUNS– Speed of connection to storage– Specific setup for failover cluster

SharePoint Virtualisation• Same install process as on physical machines• Connect central admin to the virtualised SQL• No difference in administration• As many SharePoint servers as you want / need

SharePoint Virtualisation• Key considerations– Load balance WFE’s as in a normal environment– Network load on host(s)

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