Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 1 part 49. This course is intended for IT Professionals who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large environment. While they may have implemented a SharePoint deployment, they have limited experience in designing a SharePoint infrastructure. They likely work as a senior administrator who acts as a technical lead over a team of administrators. Members of this audience should have at least 6 months experience with SharePoint 2010. | Designing an Enterprise Search Strategy 9-39 Index Data FAST search stores the index on index servers and query servers. The index includes metadata in addition to standard item references. The following formula estimates the index data storage requirements TotallndexSize CorpusSize x This estimates the total index. To calculate the storage requirements for each query server you must know the number of index columns that you require. From a capacity perspective an index column should hold no more than 15 million items in the default configuration. FAST search automatically divides the index evenly between all index columns. You can calculate the storage requirement for a single index column by using the following formula IndexColumnSize TotallndexSize v NumberOfColumns For each index and query server you must also allow additional disk space for index updates and index rebuilds. To calculate disk requirements use the following formula for each query server IndexStorage QueryComponentSize x x NumberOfQueryComponents Additional Index Data In addition FAST search requires some additional data storage for elements such as a Web analyzer and log data. The following formula estimates the additional data storage requirements AdditionalData CorpusSize x Note FAST search does not include People Search data so the estimates that are provided do not include People Search data. You must configure SharePoint search to provide the People Search component when required. Additional Reading For more information about capacity sizing for search see the Disk Usage section in the white paper called FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Capacity Planning at http fwlink LinkID 200898 clcid 0x409. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 9-40 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Lesson 4 Mapping Business Requirements to Search Design Planning Search Requirements Business Reasons for FAST Search
