Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 1 part 24. 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 a Physical Architecture 4-27 Lesson 3 SharePoint Farm Topologies Single Farm Topologies Multiple Farm Topologies and Cross-Farm Services Multiple Farms for Content Publishing Multi-Tenancy Environments This lesson reviews the options for a SharePoint farm topology. The flexibility of the SharePoint topology enables solution architects to tailor each farm deployment to the specific sizing and performance requirements of their organization. Using SharePoint 2010 you may choose to deploy a single farm to service all requirements. Alternatively you may choose to deploy multiple farms based on separating authoring and publishing processes or multiple farms for a geographically distributed user base. In addition multiple farms can share some service applications or a single farm can provide content requirements for several different organizations simultaneously. Objectives After completing this lesson you will be able to Identify suitable topologies for single farms. Explain options for multiple farm topologies and cross-farm services. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 4-28 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Identify topologies for multiple farms to support content publishing. Describe the support for multi-tenancy in SharePoint 2010. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED Designing a Physical Architecture 4-29 Single Farm Topologies Key Points Farm topology is extremely flexible in SharePoint 2010. For example you can add servers to a farm scale out to share existing services with the current farm servers. You can also dedicate specific servers to running specific service applications such as search or Excel Services or dedicate servers as WFE servers. There are three categories of farm topologies Small farms. These farms typically have between two and approximately five servers and they can have two or three tiers. In a small two-tier farm the WFE server s also run service application components such as search query search crawl or .
