SharePoint Virtualization
June 23, 2009
“SharePoint Virtualization Survey Results” offered some insight into how on sample of Microsoft licensees uses virtual servers. The person running the survey and preparing the summary of results is Wictor Wilén. Among the findings that I found interesting were these:
- About 96 percent of the respondents virtualized their development environment and half virtualized their production environments. (I was surprised at the disparity between the two percentages.)
- The Web front end was virtualized by most respondents; query service was the second most virtualized operation. Mr. Wilén wrote: “A quite high number of respondents answered that they were virtualizing the database role (73,9%) but only half of them could really recommend it (37,2%). The Excel Services role was something that about half of the participants virtualized (47,8%) and recommended for virtualization (44,2%).”
You can get more survey details from Mr. Wilen’s Web site.
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96% virtualized development environment, but almost half of that didn’t virtualize production…I’d be interested in finding out more about why those numbers are so different. What’s keeping the gap in place?
A really interesting green computer technology I found is Userful Multiplier. It’s where multiple people can use the same computer at the same time each with their own monitor, mouse and keyboard. This saves a lot of electricity and e-waste. A company called Userful recently set a virtualization world record by delivering over 350,000 virtual desktops to schools in Brazil. They have a free 2-user version for home use too. Check it out: userful.com