sharepoint europe conference 2011 - virtualisation
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The slide deck from my virtualising SharePoint and SQL at the European SharePoint Conference 2011 in BerlinTRANSCRIPT
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SharePoint 2010 & Virtualisation
Alan Richards
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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
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Topics• Virtualisation quickie• SQL• SharePoint
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Virtualisation Quickie• Multiple virtual machines on a host• Shared resources– Network– Memory– CPU
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Virtualisation Quickie• Centralised Storage– Failover cluster– Redundancy– Live Migration
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How It Stacks Up
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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
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Management
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SQL Virtualisation• Core to your SharePoint farm• SQL fail = SharePoint fail– Node failover not DB– Patching– Service Packs
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SQL Virtualisation• 2 x SQL virtual servers• Shared storage– Failover cluster• Has to be validated
– Live migration
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SQL Virtualisation• Failover cluster manager– MSTDC– SQL Server
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SQL Virtualisation
• Witness disk
• MSDTC storage
• SQL Server storage
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SQL Virtualisation• Key considerations– Storage space– Setting up LUNS– Speed of connection to storage– Specific setup for failover cluster
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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
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SharePoint Virtualisation• Key considerations– Load balance WFE’s as in a normal environment– Network load on host(s)
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