This document discusses strategies for managing SharePoint infrastructure at different scales. It addresses infrastructure considerations like physical vs virtual setups and network topology. SQL Server configuration best practices are outlined for high availability and performance. SharePoint farm topology options are presented depending on farm size. Management tools like System Center and PowerShell are also described. The overall message is to understand requirements, plan extensively, test solutions, and manage expectations when deploying and maintaining SharePoint.

2. > Taming SharePoint
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6. Change in SharePoint…

7. Change in delivery

9. Being Big

10. Small

11. Medium

12. Big

13. Concepts

14. Problem Space
• Infrastructure
• SQL Server
• SharePoint
• Management
• (Users)

15. Infrastructure

16. Physical Infrastructure
• Positives
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No V overhead
Spindle targeting
OS is the limit
Simplified
• Negatives
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Backup/Recovery challenges
No snapshot
Management
HA more complex

17. Virtual Infrastructure
• Positives
• Snapshots
• Rapid scale/fail
• HA/DR options
• Negatives
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Compute loss
Hardware complexity
Disk management
Complex networking
(Clustering)

18. Network Infrastructure
• Traffic Isolation
• NICs per server
• Hops
• Colocation
• Close location (v)

19. Storage Infrastructure
• Heart of SharePoint
• Choices
• Expertise

20. SQL Server

21. Challenges
• HA/DR
• Configuration
• Optimisation

22. AlwaysOn
• Replaces mirroring (and clustering)
• Multi-mode replication
• Stretch compatible
• Uses WSFC
• Requires Full Recovery

23. Configuration / Optimisation
• Sizing
• Database growth
• Database isolation
• Core configuration
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Memory
File locations
MAXDOP
OS file alloc at 64k

24. SharePoint

25. Topology
• Horses for Courses
• Federated farms
• HADR
• How many?

26. Big Topology

27. Boundaries & Limits
• Review and understand
• Consider them law
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

28. Farm Functionality
• Request Manager
• Integrated
• Dedicated
• Authentication
• Service Applications
• Distributed Cache

29. Updates
• Challenges
• Options
• Downtime
• Low downtime
• Zero downtime

30. Management

31. System Center
• Application Controller
• Configuration Manager
• Data Protection Manager
• Operations Manager
• Orchestrator
• Service Manager
• Virtual Machine Manager

32. Tight Integration
• Management Packs
• Monitoring & rules
• Data Protection Manager
• Fully Supported

33. Loose Integration
• Service Templates (VMM)
• VHD build (SCO)
• Runbooks (SCO)
• Not supportable

34. PowerShell
• Tools for “free”
• Pure SQL PowerShell
• SharePoint PowerShell
• Non-SQL/SharePoint PowerShell

35. Wrap Up

36. The End of the Day…
• Understand what you need
• Plan, plan, plan
• Test, test, test
• Manage expectations

38. Thanks for being here…
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