Friday 23 July 2010

SharePoint Search 2010 in a Small Scale Farm - Hardware - Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

SharePoint Search 2010 in a Small Scale Farm - Hardware - Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs


Web Servers Specs

There are four Web servers in the farm. 3 are used to serve content (2 of which are also used as the Search Query/Search Query and Site Settings Servers). The other server is used as the search crawl target (to reduce the load on our content servers while search is crawling)

Server

WFE/Query Server/QP

Crawl Target

Processor(s)

2 quad core @2.33 GHz

2 quad core @2.33 GHz

RAM

32 GB

16 GB

Operating system

Windows Server® 2008, 64 bit

Windows Server 2008, 64 bit

Size of the SharePoint drive

6x146GB 15K SAS (3 RAID 1 Disks)

Disk 1: OS and Product

Disk 2: Swap, BLOB Cache and Index

Disk 3: Logs and Temp directory

3x146GB 15K SAS (3 RAID 1 Disks)

Disk 1: OS and Product

Disk 2: Swap and BLOB Cache

Disk 3: Logs and Temp directory

Number of NICs

2

2

NIC Speed

1 Gigabit

1 Gigabit

Authentication

NTLM

NTLM

Software version

SharePoint Server 2010 (pre-release version)

SharePoint Server 2010 (pre-release version)

Services running locally

Query Server/Search Query and Site Settings

No services

Search Crawler Specs

There is one SharePoint 2010 Search crawler server in the farm.

Server

Search Crawler

Processor(s)

2 quad core @2.5GHz Xeon

RAM

16 GB

Operating system

Windows Server 2008 R2, 64 bit

Size of the SharePoint drive

4x136GB 15K SAS (2 RAID 1 Disks)

2x418GB 15K, SAS (RAID 1) *

Disk 1: OS and Product

Disk 2: Swap and BLOB Cache

Disk 3: Logs and Temp directory

Number of NICs

2

NIC Speed

1 Gigabit

Authentication

NTLM

Software version

SharePoint Server 2010 (pre-release version)

Services running locally

Crawl Server

* These drives were big ,not because of a requirement from the product, but because they were readily available at the time when the hardware was being configured

Database Servers Specs

This is the database server that is dedicated to SharePoint 2010 Search.

Server

SQL Server - Search DBs

Processor(s)

2 quad core @3.2 GHz

RAM

32 GB

OS

Windows Server 2008 R2, 64-bit

Storage and geometry

2x136GB 15K SAS (RAID 0)

6x60GB Solid State Disks, SATA (RAID 5)

Disk 1: OS. SQL Server y Swap

Disk 2: Search and Temp DBs and log files

Number of NICs

2

NIC Speed

1 Gigabit

Authentication

NTLM

Software version

SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pre-Release)


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