Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V

 

Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V

Updated: 2008-11-06

This article provides information about the performance and capacity requirements for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a Hyper-V™ virtual environment.

In this article:

• Introduction

• Recommendations for configuring and optimizing Hyper-V

• Hyper-V test environment and testing strategy

• Test scenarios, results and analysis

• Recommendations for deploying SharePoint on Hyper-V

• Additional resources

Acknowledgments

• Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC): Mike VanderMeer (EEC), Kevin Engman

• Tony Voellm, Tim Litton

Introduction

This article describes the tests that were conducted to compare the performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007 servers deployed as guests on a Hyper-V™ host against SharePoint servers deployed on physical computers and provides recommendations for deploying Office SharePoint on Hyper-V. Although the tests described in this article are SharePoint-specific, the performance evaluation methods and performance testing scenarios are useful for analyzing the performance of virtualized server applications in general. The test results and guidance will be of interest to both the IT Pro and Developer communities.

All the performance tests described in this guide were conducted at the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center. The Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) is a state-of-the-art, datacenter laboratory at the main Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. The EEC can replicate nearly any production environment and is used by Microsoft product groups and customers. You can find out more about the EEC at http://www.microsoft.com/eec (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=132796&clcid=0x409).

Before you deploy and test SharePoint in a Hyper-V environment, it is recommended that you read the following articles in the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide:

• Hyper-V Feature Overview (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=132797&clcid=0x409)

• Hyper-V Architecture (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=132799&clcid=0x409)

The BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide also contains a glossary that is available at Glossary (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=132801&clcid=0x409).

Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V