A presentation from the recent SharePoint in education events, showing the options for upgrading, migrating and virtualising SharePoint 2010

1. Upgrade / Migration & Virtualisation with SharePoint 2010 Dave Coleman & Alan Richards

2. Why virtualise when upgrading/migration to SharePoint 2010 Simple way to move to a 64bit environment. Cost savings in a time of budget cuts. Increased flexibility in growing and managing your server stock. High availability of e-learning resources. Improved protection against server failure (if in a fail over cluster).

3. SharePoint 2010 Software/Hardware Requirements Software 64 Bit edition of SQL 2005 With SP3 or 64 Bit edition of SQL 2008 With SP1 and Cumulative Update 2 or 64 Bit Edition of SQL 2008 R2 64 Bit edition of windows server 2008 with SP2 64 Bit edition of Windows server 2008 R2 Hardware 64 Bit processor, 4 Cores 8GB Ram 80GB Hard Drive Space

4. Single Server Deployment One server farm Runs all SharePoint roles Central admin Web front end SQL Server

5. Two Tier Farm Single SharePoint Server SQL Server could be MIS Server

6. Upgrade In place upgrade Patched SQL X64 architecture High availability upgrade Patched SQL Copy MOSS 2007 database and attached to new server

7. Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager 2010 Quest Software Migration Manager (2003 to 2010) TzunamiDeployer for SharePoint 2010 migration AvePointDocAve SharePoint Migration Manager for 2001/2003/2007 to 2003/2007/2010 MetaVis Migrator for SharePoint Xavor SharePoint 2010 Migration Tool SharePoint Joel http://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx Migration Tools

8. Virtualisation – The Basics Market players Citrix VMWare Microsoft Hyper-V

9. Standard Model One server = One role New role = New Server New Server = More Money Virtualisation – The Basics

10. Virtualisation Model Start small One server Large memory and storage One server runs multiple guests Expand as necessary Multiple servers Centralised storage Failover Virtualisation – The Basics

11. Failover Cluster Manager

13. Create New Virtual Servers

14. Start VM

15. Shutdown VM

16. Manage VM’s With HyperV Manager

18. System Centre Virtual Machine Manager

20. Manage Your Virtual Machines

21. Live Migrate

22. Create and Manage Snapshots (Checkpoints)

23. Stop

24. Shutdown

25. Restart

26. Create templates to easily create virtual servers

27. Manage ISO Storage

28. Manage Your VMware VirtualCenter Server

30. Monitor Memory Available on your Hosts

31. Shutdown

32. Start

33. Restart

34. RDP Support

35. FREE

36. Download From

38. Domain Controllers Physical Hyper-V Servers 2 x Quad Core 72 Gb RAM SAN iSCSI 12 x 1TB disks in RAID 5 configuration Virtualised Environment

39. Virtual servers installed on Hyper-V boxes Clustered SQL Load balanced web front ends Easily add additional servers How It Stacks Up

40. Windows Server 2008 Standard 1 free licence for guest Windows OS Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 4 free licences for guest Windows OS Windows Server 2008 Datacentre Licensed per processor (platter NOT core) Unlimited licences for guest Windows OS Hyper-V Licensing

41. Automatic failover Hyper-V server fails all virtual server moved to another server User sees no loss of service Easily and quickly add servers Store ISO of operating system on Hyper-V servers Live migration Migrate virtual server to another Hyper-V server while its online User sees no loss of service Cost effective Not asking for more money every time you need a new server Prolong server lifecycles Additional Benefits

42. Live Migration - Video

43. Contact Us Dave.coleman@twynhamschool.com Twitter id – http://twitter.com/davecoleman146 Blog – http://Sharepointedutech.com arichards@westhatch.essex.sch.uk Twitter id - http://twitter.com/arichards_Saruk Blog - http://EduTechNow.com