1. Heavy Metal PowerPivot
Jason Himmelstein
SharePoint Practice Director, Sentri, Inc.
jhimmelstein@sentri.com
@sharepointlhorn
2. Israel - Development &
Business since 1999 Engineering
2012 East Region
Partner of the Year
Northeast Partner of the Year
2012, 2011 & 2010
Only Partner to Win 3 Consecutive Years
2011 Awards
Voice & VTSP
9. Internet Explorer SharePoint
SQL Server Data Tools
Power View
Excel Services
Reporting Services
PowerPivot for
xlsx
Excel
Analysis Services
PowerPivot for
SharePoint
(Analysis Services)
Excel
BI Semantic Model
xlsx
Third Party Apps
Personal BI Team BI Corporate BI
10. Server, Services, and Components
SharePoint Farm c2wts/proxy
c2wts
SQL Server
WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services
MSOLAP
Excel Services
Application Proxy TCP
MSOLAP Driver
HTTP
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web
Excel Services Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
PowerPivot Services Data sources
11. Rendering the PowerPivot Workbook
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
SQL Server
WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services
MSOLAP
Excel Services
Application Proxy
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
Data sources
12. Rendering the PowerPivot Workbook
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
SQL Server
WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services
MSOLAP c:Program
Excel Services Files...OLAPBackup
Application Proxy
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
Data sources
13. PowerPivot does NOT require Kerberos
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
SQL Server
WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services
MSOLAP
Excel Services
Application Proxy
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
Data sources
14. Server Action
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
SQL Server
WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services
MSOLAP
Excel Services
Application Proxy
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
Data sources
16. Server Action > c2wts
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
WFE App
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services Content
MSOLAP
Excel Services
Application Proxy
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
Data sources
17. Server Action
SharePoint Farm
WFE App
Client Content
c:Program
Files...OLAPBackup
ImageLoad
Data sources
18. Load Balancing
SharePoint Farm
By default, set to
round-robin
App1 App2 health allocation
Testing notes that
BP to set to
health-based
allocation
Uses more
resources than
round-robin
BUT, pro-actively
evicts
unnecessary
VertiPaq dBs
when under
memory pressure