Virtualizing Sharepoint - 74% power savings | Virtual Geek
Link: Virtual Geek: Virtualizing Sharepoint - How about saving 74% of your power?.
Now on to another "Tier 1 app".... Sharepoint is another great app, and a great app to virtualize since it's one that often has a lot of server components (like like Exchange 2007) and people were asking about our experiences running it on VMware. Curious? Read on....
The results:
In terms of performance, (omitting the SQL backend - which has been virtualized in other tests showing EXCELLENT performance), across 3 baseline tests, on average:
- Our Virtualized SharePoint server infrastructure farm out-performed the physical SharePoint farm by 4%,
- But only used 26% of the electrical power (watts) required to power the physical server infrastructure - put another way, that’s a 74% power saving over physical, put yet another way, going physical means 380% more power.
- 1017 Watts versus 3952 Watts. 6 Power cords versus 22
Chad also points out where to get more juicy case studies (well, refererence architectures) and us with this question of the day:
"Why would anyone deploy in physical vs. VMware (except the obvious "it's
not a supported guest OS type" or it's "not an x86-64 workload")."
Posted by John Troyer on July 20, 2008 in applications
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excellent virtualised sql performance?? lolz!!!!!!
Posted by: me | August 18, 2008 at 08:28 AM
Hi,
I have all my environment on VMware for SharePoint.
The only server is physical is my index server.
I have 6 WFE, 2 Query servers, 2 App servers all virtual + 3 SQL servers also virtual.
You want to know my experience? guess what? It works but get ready to monitor your env. every second.
Vmotions are not a good friend of SQL servers...
I could be taking hours... contact me if you want specific details
Posted by: Piscus | September 05, 2008 at 04:21 PM
We run our Sharepoint enviroment all in vmware. 2 WFE 4 Apps 2 Sql..
I'm curious to learn what others are doing for DR ?? We are currently going through this process and are a little stuck as to what to do with our Sharepoint enviroment ,, Due to licensing, we can only have a cold DR (turned off)
Posted by: Dan | September 17, 2008 at 10:56 PM