Admin Stuff

Shane Young and Todd Klindt

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Who is this Todd guy?

• WSS MVP since 2006

• Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius, President of Shane Young fan club

• Personal Blogwww.toddklindt.com/blog

• Company web sitewww.sharepoint911.com

• E-mailtodd.Klindt@Rackspace.com

• Twitter me! @toddklindt

• NETCAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• http://www.toddklindt.com/netcast

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Who Am I?

• Shane Young

• SharePoint911, a Rackspace Company

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP

• Consultant, Trainer, Writer, & Speaker • Shane.Young@Rackspace.com • Blog• http://msmvps.com/shane

• SharePoint Consulting• http://www.sharepoint911.com

• Twitter @ShanesCows

Agenda

• Topologies• Hardware considerations• The Four stages of a good install

Topologies

• This is how SharePoint scales from one simple server to lots of really big servers• Accomplished by spreading the different

SharePoint services across one or more servers

Three tiers of SharePoint

• Web Front End – WFE• These are servers that host the IIS sites (web applications)

that your users interact with• You have to setup your own load balancing to direct web

traffic

• Application Server• Catch all for the servers in your farm that run the various

services• SharePoint is very flexible, you can spread the load any way

you want• SharePoint does the load balancing of service for you• Search needs some extra lovin’

• Database Server• Can be any supported version of SQL• Can be cluster or mirrored or any other cool SQL trick you

know• You can have multiple SQL servers

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Scaling Search example

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SharePoint production hardware

• 100 GB C: Drive• Windows• SharePoint root• All of those hotfixes & service packs for the next few years• Some SharePoint operations spool here

• X GB second drive• Move all possible files here (logs, etc.)• All servers must have the same drive letters

• 4 cores• Memory• 12 GB for production servers in 3 tier topology• 24 GB for all-in-one test or dev• 8 GB for test or dev Foundation

• Gigabit Ethernet• All servers must have less than 1 ms of latency to each other

Virtualization and Hardware requirements

• The corner has been turned

• Don’t be stingy with hardware

• Tiers• Web front ends – Sure• Application – Be careful• SQL – Be very, very carefu

• TechNet: SharePoint 2013 Hardware and software requirements• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx

• SQL Virt Video

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sqlserver/gg429826.aspx

• SQLIO

• http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20163

Different workloads different hardware

• Performance and capacity test results for SharePoint 2010 • http://

www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12768

• Capacity and Sizing Overview for SharePoint 2013 • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758647.aspx

SharePoint development hardware

• Anything you want • Our testing has shown SharePoint Server is

not stable below 12 GB of RAM• I/O matters• No more client installs• Windows 8 comes with Hyper-V though.

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