SQL Server on VMWare

  • I was tasked with coming up with specs for a SQL Server on VMware. I don't know much about the application or the number of transactions per day. I have no experience with SQL Server on a virtual machine. What specs would you start off with for testing? There will be about 40 concurrent users and 3 databases.

    I was thinking 8 or 12 CPUs with 16GB of RAM.

    Thoughts?

    SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008

  • what edition\version VMWare are you planning?

    most of the common ESX licences only allow up to 4 way SMP for VMs.

    2vCPUs and 8GB RAM should be enough i would have thought

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