Sharepoint Products And Technologies Deployment Issues

SharePoint Products and Technologies Deployment Issues

Single Server Deployments 

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All WSS components on a single box Best for work group or business unit Two types: Use SQL Server 2000 (a.k.a. “Single Server”)  MSDE (a.k.a. “Stand-alone”) 

Application Pools 

Three application pools will be created by default: 1. DefaultWebSiteSPApp 2. CentralAdminAppPool 3. MSSharePointPortalAppPool

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Application pools are used for process isolation and are associated to the virtual servers hosting WSS/SPS Administrators have full control over how to allocate and configure application pools

Portal Performance Factors    

Web page throughput Search throughput Index throughput Pages per user

The Performance ‘Wild-Card’ Custom Web Parts 

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Custom-built Web Parts may dramatically increase the use of Web server or SQL Server resources Recommendation: Test all custom Web Parts carefully by using code profiling, database profiling, and load simulation before deploying to production servers.

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Single Server Deployment Capacity Example

Hardware  At least 1 GB of RAM  At least 100 GB of available hard disk space  A 2 GHz (minimum) Pentium 4 processor Above configuration will:  Process 20 Web pages per second  Process two search queries per second  Index five documents per second  Store more than 100,000 documents  Include more than 1 million documents in indexes  Host more than 10,000 team and personal sites

WSS/SPS Infrastructure Considerations 

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Servers must be members of same domain (except for single server installs which support local accounts) All servers in farm must be the same language version of OS and SQL Server Should not install with SharePoint’s version of MSDE on DC’s WSS/SPS supports multiple languages  Each server in your server farm must include the regional language options to support the languages of all portal sites on that server  All portal sites on the server farm must use the same language. However, other sites, such as SharePoint sites, can use different languages

Scalable Service Components of SharePoint 

There are a total of five major service components SharePoint relies on:  WSS Service Components  

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Web server Database server Search server Index server Job server

Any of these services may be distributed across many servers to achieve scalability

Scale-out Decision Points  

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Throughput and availability are the 2 competing decision points Small to medium org ( < 10,000 users)  Single Server or Small Farm deployments are sufficient  Throughput generally not an issue Large org (10s of thousands of users)  Throughput will require Small Farm or Medium Farm (3-5 servers) Largest orgs (100s of thousands of users)  Throughput will require large farm (10-20 servers) or multiple farms  Share Services may also be appropriate Business structure may require shared services for SharePoint Portal Server Custom web parts can significantly change CPU/memory requirements

Capacity, Throughput and Availability Planning 

Increase capacity and throughput by adding: 

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Processors, RAM, and storage capacity to existing servers (increases capacity only)

Increase capacity and availability    

Web servers Computers running SQL Server Search servers Index servers