Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 1 part 17. 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. | Planning for Performance and Capacity 3-27 Selecting a Farm Topology Key Points It is important to consider farm size and topology carefully when you size a SharePoint 2010 solution for performance and capacity. Farm topologies for SharePoint 2010 fall broadly into three categories Small farm. A small SharePoint farm typically has two or three tiers made up from up to five servers. Typically there is a single database server and WFE servers may also perform service application roles. A two-tier three-server farm can serve relatively low usage load a few requests per minute to a few requests per second RPS and a volume of data in the region of tens of gigabytes. Medium farm. A topology for a medium SharePoint farm typically has three tiers with more than six servers. There may be multiple database servers multiple search servers and application servers that are dedicated to specific service applications. Multiple WFE servers enable many concurrent user requests. A medium-size farm can serve a usage load of a few tens of RPS and a data volume up to 1 terabyte. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 3-28 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Large farm. A topology for a large SharePoint farm typically employs in excess of 10-12 servers that are arranged in three tiers. In a large farm you often logically group servers according to the applications that the servers host. For example a group of three servers hosting Microsoft InfoPath forms or a group of two crawl servers. A large farm can serve usage loads of hundreds of RPS and data storage of tens of terabytes. Additional Reading For more information about topologies for SharePoint Server 2010 see http fwlink LinkID 200856 clcid 0x409. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED Planning for Performance and Capacity 3-29 Monitoring Performance Key Points To size a solution correctly from a performance perspective you should perform monitoring of the system under load to ascertain performance .
