Architecture SharePoint 2010
Smruti Ranjan Nayak

hardware & software requirements

SharePoint 2010
• SharePoint 2010 : hardware & software
requirements
• Installation scenarios
• Single with bult-in database
• Single server
• Multiple server farm

SharePoint 2010
• Hardware requirements—Web servers, application servers,
and single server installations
• Processor 64-bit, four cores
• RAM 4GB (Dev) / 8GB (Prod)
• HDD 80GB + 2*RAM
• Hardware requirements—Database servers
• Processor 64-bit, four cores (small deploy.)
64-bit, eight cores (medium deploy.)
• RAM 8GB (small deploy.)
16GB (medium deploy.)
• HDD 80GB min

SharePoint 2010
• Software requirements
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx
Database Env Single built-in FE & App servers
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
(x64)
Windows Server 2008 (x64)
SP2
• Standard
• Entreprise
• Data Center
• Web Server
Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
• Standard
• Entreprise
• Data Center
• Web Server
Windows Server 2008 (x64)
SP2
• Standard
• Entreprise
• Data Center
• Web Server
Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
• Standard
• Entreprise
• Data Center
• Web Server
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
(x64) SP1 & CU2/CU5 or later*
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 R2
(x64) SP3*

Farm Topologies

Development Farm

Development Farm
• SharePoint Server
– All Roles
– Sql Server
– Evaluation Farm
• Users ?
– 100

Development Farm
• SharePoint Server
– All Roles
• SQL Server
– All SharePoint DB
• User ?
– 10 000

Small Farm

Small Farm
• SharePoint Server
– Server 1
• Web Server
• Query Server
– Server 2
• Web Server
• Query Server
• Roles
• SQL Server
– All SharePoint DB
• Users ?
– 10 000/20 000

Small Farm
• SharePoint Server
– Fend 1 & 2
• Web Server
• Query Server
– Application Server
• SQL Server
– All SharePoint DB
• Users ?
– 10 000/20 000

Small Farm
• SharePoint Server
– Fend 1 & 2
• Web Server
• Query Server
– Application Server
• SQL Server
– Sql 1
• SharePoint Search DB
– Sql 2
• SharePoint DB

Medium Farm

Medium Farm
• SharePoint Server
– Fend 1
• Web Server
– Fend 2
• Web Server
– Application Server
– Query & Crawl Server
• SQL Server
– Sql 1 & 2
• Search DB
– Sql 3
• SharePoint DB

Large Farm

Large Farm
OR
• Crawl
• Query
• All Services
• Search
• Content DB
• All DB

Farm Administration

Farm Administration
Staff position Small farm Medium farm Large farm Multiple farms
System administrator 1 Full Time 1 Full Time 2 Full Time 2 Full Time
Search administrator 1 Part Time 1 Full Time
1 Full Time
1 Part Time
3 Full Time
Site designer 1 Part Time 1 Full Time 2 Full Time 3 Full Time
Software developer N/A
1 Full Time
1 Part Time
2 Full Time 3 Full Time
Software tester N/A 1 Part Time 1 Full Time 2 Full Time
SQL DBA 1 Part Time 1 Full Time 1 Full Time 2 Full Time

Search

SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 search
• Search is scoped to a single site collection
• Search does not crawl external data source
• Most search capabilites are configured
automatically
• Crawls automatically without scheduling & with
admin control
• Ifilter for Office are included
• 10m items / search server

SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 search
– Single server
SharePoint Foundation 2010, including search, can be
installed on a single server.

SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 search
– Dedicated search server
• Search can be put on a dedicated application server
• Search server includes both the query and index
functions (these cannot be separated)
• Search role cannot be deployed to more than one server
for redundancy or to increase performance

SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 search
– Scaled for capacity
• Search servers are assigned to crawl different content
databases
• Search servers uses a separate crawl database and
property database for indexing and responding queries

SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
• Scalable search technology (100m items)
• Integrates with the SharePoint’s social networking
features
• Taxonomy
• User generated tags
• Taxonomy influences search rankings and experience

SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

SharePoint 2010
• Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
– Require great performance, scalability
– Require enriched entreprise search
• Ability to customize query
• Ability to customize navigation
– Crawl different types of internal and external
content sources
• Database

SharePoint 2010
• Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
• Process content and build index
partitions
• Process search queries
FAST servers

Server roles

Server Roles
• Web Server
• Application Server Roles
– Search Roles
– Other Cross Farm Services
– Client Services
– Other single farm service
• Database Server
– Search DB
– Content DB
– Other Service DB

Server Roles
• Service Oriented Architecture

Server Roles
• Service Oriented Architecture
– Access Database Services
– Excel Calculation Services
– …

Server Roles
• SSP is Dead
– MOSS 2007
• Search
• Excel Services
• …
– SharePoint 2010
• Service Applications

Server Roles

Security Configuration

Security Configuration
Account type Account name
SQL Service sqlSvcAcc
Setup Admin spAdmin
Farm Account spFarmAcc
Application Pool Account spAppPoolAcc_<Name of the webapp>
Application Pool Account for BDC Service Application spAppPoolBDCAcc
Application Pool Account for Excel Service Application spAppPoolEXCELAcc
Application Pool Account for PowerPoint Service Application spAppPoolPPTAcc
Application Pool Account for Word Service Application spAppPoolWORDAcc
Application Pool Account for Search Admin Web Service spAppPoolSearchWebSvcAcc
Application Pool Account for Search Queryr and Settings Web Service spAppPoolSearchQueryAndSiteSetAcc
SharePoint Foundation Search Service Account spfSearchSvc
SharePoint Foundation Search Content Access Account spfSearchCAAcc
SharePoint User Profile Synchronization Service spUserProfileAcc
SharePoint Site Collection Administrator spSiteColAdmin_<Name of the site collection>
• Service Account naming

Database Taxonomy

Database Taxonomy
• DB Taxonomy
SP2010_Config Development Farm Config DB
SP2010_AdminContent Development Central Admin content DB
SP2010_Logging Development SharePoint Logging DB
SP2010_Service_UserProfile_Social Development User Profile social database
SP2010_Service_UserProfile_Synch Development User Profile synch database
SP2010_Service_UserProfile_Profile Development User Profile database
SP2010_Service_UserProfile_MySites Development User Profile MySites database
SP2010_WebApp_Intranet Development Content DB for Intranet Top Level Site Collection
SP2010_Service_ManagedMetadata Development Managed Metadata Service
SP2010_Service_Search Development Search Service database
SP2010_Service_Search_Crawl Development Search Service Crawl database
SP2010_Service_Search_Property Development Search Service Property database
SP2010_Service_WebAnalytics_Reporting Development Web Analytics Service reporting database
SP2010_Service_WebAnalytics_Staging Development Web Analytics Service staging database
SP2010_Service_SecureStore Development Secure Store Service database
SP2010_Service_State Development State Service database
SP2010_Service_Usage Development Usage Service database