Best practices for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

With the release of Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows® Server 2008, Microsoft® has provided customers with an excellent virtualization tool that can be used for consolidating the number of physical servers required for a full deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. By virtualizing key roles such as Web Front End/Query, and Indexing, customers can now deploy fewer HP ProLiant servers or HP BladeSystem servers to handle all the tasks of many physical servers. This in turn reduces the costs around day-to-day operations (power, cooling, physical management, etc.).

HP engineers have spent significant time configuring and testing different Hyper-V configurations with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to determine the viability of the Hyper-V based solutions, and have, as a result of this testing, compiled a list of Hyper-V “best practices” with Office SharePoint Server 2007. This white paper outlines those best practices along with considerations for deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Hyper-V on HP ProLiant servers and HP BladeSystem servers. Additionally, it also contains sample configurations for typical Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments when using Hyper-V.