As everyone knows Microsoft
released SP2013 Preview (Beta) last week and most of the SharePoint developers
are curious to install it and few might have already started exploring. I am
sure there is enough blog post around to guide you through the installation.
The main intention of the blog post would be to elaborate more on the system
configuration and performance from developer perspective
As we know the minimum hardware
configuration is pretty high for setting up development environment, developers
are worried if they can install and work with a lower configuration. I would
say it’s possible but you need to be patient enough to see the “Working on It” screen for some time.
To start with I have the
following hardware and software configuration
Hardware
|
|
Type
|
Laptop
|
Hard disk
|
500 GB
|
RAM
|
4GB DDR 3
|
Process
|
Core i7 , 1.6 Ghz
|
You might be assuming this is a
pretty good hardware configuration, but that’s not the case with SharePoint
2013. It eats up almost 3.8 GB of Ram when you start using it and this where
you start seeing “Working on it” screen for longer duration when you start
creating a site collection. It took
almost 5-8 minutes to create my first site collection on the default port.
If you are planning for better usage please don’t run the
SharePoint Farm Configuration Wizard for all the services, as this would end up
in seeing “Working on it” for almost 20
– 30 minutes.
Here is the snapshot of Physical Memory usage and Process
performance
Developers who are facing issues in installing SP2013, it
would save your time if you read through the Software Requirement thoroughly
before you start installation. Following are the steps which I followed during
my first hazel free installation of SharePoint 2013.
- Install Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard/Enterprise, Add Roles for Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, and IIS etc.
- Install Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
- Install service Pack for IIS
- Configure Domain controller, and provide a domain name, so that you can create multiple active directory users.
- Install Dot Net Framework 4.5 RC
- Install SQL Server 2008 R2
- Install SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2008 R2 ,SQL Management Studio (Optional)
- Run the SP Server 2013 Preview setups, and Install the prerequisites, Make sure all the prerequisites are installed successfully.
- Runt the SP2013 Server Preview setup
- Finally run the SharePoint configuration wizard.
I have decided to work with
the system for next 1 week, if the performance further degrades then
will go ahead for upgrading my RAM from 4GB to 8GB (max configuration my laptop
can support L)
Note: The above
system performance will be different for different hardware configuration
