"Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows Small Business Server 2003 with SP1" Little Mistake in docu

[philip...@gmail.com]

Hi @all hi MSFT,

I got the new document:
"Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows Small Business Server
2003 with SP1"

a few minutes ago and on page 7 of 16 in the table the RAM requirement
(12MB) for SBS premium must be wrong.

Anyway 512 MB for SBS Standard + VS + Appserver is too low in my
eye´s. I would say 1GB absolut minium for a production machine with
Virtual Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8e1b8271-17a0-4f3a-a379-19ecf37d4229&displaylang=en

Regards Philipp Kohn
http://blog.kohnonline.de
mod @ www.mcseboard.de

[Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]]

Hi Phillip,

There are a number of things that affect performance when running virtual
machines, especially in a production environment. But in any case, 1 GB ram
for the SBS alone is really a practical minimum for a small environment of 5
users; 2 or 3 GB of ram for the SBS will give you a large performance boost.
Personally, I haven't seen large performance gains by exceeding 3 GB for the
SBS server, even in larger environments.

Once we add VS and virtual machines, we need to consider resource
allocation. VS is nice, as we can reserve resources for both the host and
virtual machines.

I run several production SBS networks with VS and TS apps mode servers
running as virtual machines. Acceptable performance is achieved with the
following resources allocations:

a) dual processors, with 100% of one processor reserved for each of the SBS
and the TS virtual machine.
b) 4 GB ram, either 3 GB for the SBS and 1 GB for the TS, or 2 GB each
(depending on the number of TS users, and apps being run).
c) a seperate disk subsystem for the Virtual Machine.
d) a 5 minute delayed startup for the virtual machine on host system
restart.

I haven't run into network bottlenecks yet, but as the number of TS users
increases I expect I'll have to address this at some point.

--
Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
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SBS Rocks !
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"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll
understand." - Confucius

<philip...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi @all hi MSFT,

I got the new document:
"Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows Small Business Server
2003 with SP1"

a few minutes ago and on page 7 of 16 in the table the RAM requirement
(12MB) for SBS premium must be wrong.

Anyway 512 MB for SBS Standard + VS + Appserver is too low in my

eye愀. I would say 1GB absolut minium for a production machine with