Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 2 part 35. 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 Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 15-43 Describe the options that you can use to minimize farm downtime during the upgrade process. Describe the options that you can use to preserve the appearance of the applications that you upgrade. Explain how administrators can use the logging and reporting services that are available in SharePoint 2010 to maximize upgrade efficiency. Describe how to plan for and manage problems in a SharePoint 2010 upgrade. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 15-44 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Hardware Requirements Key Points The requirements in the following sections apply both to installations on a single server with a built-in database and to servers running SharePoint Server 2010 in a multiple-server farm installation. Application Servers The following table describes the minimum hardware requirements for application servers. Hardware Minimum requirements Processor 64 bit four cores. RAM 4 gigabytes GB for developer or evaluation use. 8 GB for production use in a single-server or multiple-server farm. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED Planning for Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 15-45 Hardware Minimum requirements Hard disk 80 GB for system drive. Provide sufficient disk space for content databases and projected growth and peak period usage. Maintain sufficient free space for memory swapping which is normally twice the amount of memory in a production environment. Database Servers The following table describes the minimum hardware requirements for database servers. Hardware Minimum requirements Processor 64 bit four cores for small deployments. 64 bit eight cores for medium deployments. RAM 8 GB for small deployments. 16 GB for medium deployments. Use SQL Server capacity recommendations for large deployments. Hard disk 80 GB for system drive. Provide sufficient disk for content databases and projected growth for peaks and growth. Maintain sufficient free space for memory swapping which is normally twice the
