SharePoint 2010 Development Hardware Question

Question

Hi all,

I have a question about hardware requirement for SharePoint 2010.

I have a laptop, thinkpad x61s, with Core 2 duo 1.6G, 4G ram ddr2,  Is this computer's hardware capable to boot from and run the vhd (2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM))  that i downloaded from:Microsoft site http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=751fa0d1-356c-4002-9c60-d539896c66ce&displaylang=en

Thanks,

Log

Answer 1

No your laptop config is not capable of running the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine, the main bottleneck is your RAM.

The official Requirements are

System Requirements

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• Supported Operating Systems:Windows Server 2008 R2

Additionally you will need:

• Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled.
• Drive Formatting: NTFS
• Processor: Intel VT or AMD-V capable
• RAM: 8 GB or more recommended
• Hard disk space required for install: 50 GB

Tho, it will work on your system but i would say it won't run, it will crawl. 

I would suggest a minimum of 6 GB RAM, and another HDD [You can use an external eSATA HDD if your laptop supports it] on which you will store the VHD file for a better experience.

Hope that helps.

-Mukesh

Answer 2

Thanks Mukesh,

 

That answers my question.

Answer 3

But you can try. One of my test VM (2010 Information Worker Demo) runs with 4G RAM assigned in hyper-v. But i must admit it is slow. You can stop service application you don't use to save the resource.

Update: I mean you can try VHD native boot: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799282(WS.10).aspx