Migrating from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

Last week the twitter community and blogosphere came alive with the news of the release dates of SharePoint 2010 (April RTM and June general release) so I thought that I would share with you our migration strategy from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. The foundation for all of our new builds will be a HyperV virtualized environment the server specification we have chosen for our hosts is as follows

5 x Dell PowerEdge R710 with 72 GB Ram also 2 x Intel XeonX55702.93Ghz Processors

Storage for this and our other virtual servers will be with on a Nexsan SAN solution with 2.5 TB of SAS drives for our SQL databases and 7TB of SATA drives for general storage.

For our Guest VHD’s for SharePoint we will give each virtual server 8GB Ram each with 64bit Server 2008 R2 installed we will also split the server roles over the 3 virtual SharePoint servers. Chris McKinley will follow up this post with a more detailed look at running SQL 2008 in a failover cluster in HyperV.

We have already tried moving our 2007 content database over to SharePoint 2010 in our development setup with very good results but I will talk more about that after Chris has posted details of the virtualized SQL setup.

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