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)