Getting SharePoint 2010 Deployment Right final

Veenus Maximiuk

SharePoint Managing Architect

ICC

Getting SharePoint 2010 Deployment Right

*Agenda

Common Deployment Mistakes

Installation and Configuration Approaches

New Services Architecture

Virtualization Deployment Considerations

Avoid the Common Pitfalls

Questions

*Common Deployment Mistakes

Poor planning

Using the Farm Configuration Wizard for production

Use one service account for everything

Provision all service applications

*Installation and Configuration

Point-n-click Deployments SharePoint Configuration Wizard

Farm Configuration Wizard

Scripted Deployments PowerShell

stsadm/PSConfig

*SharePoint Configuration Wizard

Automatically launches the UI for PSConfig

*SharePoint Configuration Wizard

Automatically creates Central Administration Database Name

*Farm Configuration Wizard

*Farm Configuration Wizard

*Service Applications DBs Using Configuration Wizard

*Service Applications DBs Using Configuration Wizard

*Configuration Wizard Recommendations

Recommend for Development

Proof of Concept

Not best for production Too many services

Automatically creates database names for service applications

*PowerShell

What is it? Command line utility

Built on top .NET Framework

Extensible

Why use it? More control

More efficiency

Community Support Script Repository:

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us

*STSADM Marked as “deprecated”

Occasionally required

Compared to PowerShell

Less complex

Less granular

A lot of community support

Stsadm to PowerShell Mapping http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff621081.aspx

* Service Applications DBs Using PowerShell

*Using PowerShell

DEMO

*Service Application Architecture

Replaces Shared Services Provider (SSP)

New deployment considerations What does each Service Application do?

Which SharePoint edition do I need?

Which Service Applications depend on others?

How big do the databases normally get?

*Service Application per Edition Service applications Stores data? Cross-

farm?

SharePoint

Foundation

2010

SharePoint

Server 2010

Standard

SharePoint

Server 2010

Enterprise

Access Services Cache X

Business Data Connectivity DB X X X X

Excel Services Application Cache X

Managed Metadata Service DB X X X

PerformancePoint DB X

Search DB X X X

Secure Store Service DB X X X

State Service DB X X

Usage and Health Data Collection DB X X X

User Profile DB X X X

Visio Graphics Service Cache X

Web Analytics X X X

Word Automation Services DB X X

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

Subscription Settings Service

DB X X X

*Service Application Dependencies

Service Applications Business

Data

Connectivity

Managed

Metadata

Secure

Store

State Usage and

Health Data

Business Data Connectivity X*

Excel Services X*

PerformancePoint X*

Enterprise Search X* X

User Profile X* X*

Visio Graphics X* X

Web Analytics X

X* indicates conditional dependency based on usage scenarios

*Service Application DB Planning

Service Application Database Database Relative Size

Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application Usage Extra-large

Business Data Connectivity Service Application Business Data Connectivity Small

Application Registry Service Application Application Registry Small

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings

Service

Subscription Settings Small

Search Service Application Search Administration Medium

Search Service Application Crawl Extra-large

Search Service Application Property Large to Extra-large

Web Analytics Service Application Reporting Extra-large

Web Analytics Service Application Staging Medium

State Service Application, Visio Service Application,

InfoPath Forms Services

State Medium-large

User Profile Service Application Profile Medium-large

User Profile Service Application Synchronization Medium-large

User Profile Service Application Social Tagging Small to Extra-large

Managed Metadata Service Application Managed Metadata Medium

Secure Store Service Application Secure Store Small

Word Automation Service Application Word Automation Services Small

PerformancePoint Service Application PerformancePoint Small

*Virtualization Deployment Guide

Can you virtualize SharePoint 2010 Production Servers?

Absolutely. It is supported but with caveats.

Must architect the environment properly

Not taking into account disk, processor, memory, and other host and guest environments can make a virtualized environment run slowly.

*Virtual Host Guideline• Dedicated hosts for SharePoint Virtual Guests

• Assume 1GB of memory taken by host OS (Hyper-V), 3rd party varies

• No Software on Host OS! (Except A/V or Backup)

General

• Allocate Direct / Passthrough NICs when possible

• Create dedicated NIC for Management

• Create dedicated NIC for Failover NICs

• Dedicated spindles for SharePoint

• Dedicated volume for Host OS

• Dedicated volume for Guest OS VHDs

• Dedicated volume for Databases and Logs

Disk

• Do not over allocate (applies to memory as well)

• No more than 2 vCPUs for every Core on host

• For optimal performance use 1:1 ratio Processor

*Virtualization Role

• Excellent Virtualization Candidate

• Can be easily provisioned via templates Web

• Higher proc/mem requirements, but still good candidate

• Often paired with SP2010 Web Role

Query/

Crawl

• Higher proc/mem requirements, but still good candidate

• Low disk requirements compared to other roles App

• Requires the most memory, proc, and disk IO

• Be cautious when virtualizing, make sure host is scaled

• If virtual, be sure to use pass-through or fixed size disks DB

*Performance Counters Threshold on Hosts

Processor <60% Utilization = Good

60%-90% = Caution

>90% = Trouble

Available Memory 50% and above = Good

10%-50% = OK

<10% = Trouble

Disk – Avg. Disk sec/Read or Avg. Disk sec/Write

Up to 15ms = fine

15ms-25ms = Caution

>25ms = Trouble

Network Bandwidth – Bytes Total/sec

<40% Utilization = Good

41%-64% = Caution

>65% = Trouble

Network Latency - Output Queue Length

0 = Good

1-2= OK

>2 = Trouble

*Performance Counters Threshold on Guests

Processor (N/A)

Available Memory 50% and above = Good

10%-50% = OK

<10% = Trouble

Disk – Avg. Disk sec/Read or Avg. Disk sec/Write

Up to 15ms = fine

15ms-25ms = Caution

>25ms = Trouble

Network Bandwidth – Virtual NIC Bytes Total/sec

<40% Utilization = Good

41%-64% = Caution

>65% = Trouble

Network Latency - Output Queue Length

0 = Good

1-2= OK

>2 = Trouble

*Virtualization Deployment Guide SQL Server connection aliases enable efficient transition and migration between physical and virtual servers

Configure Index server to crawl itself to reduce network traffic and minimize propagation

Perform regular disk maintenance on host and guest machines

Keep databases maintained and optimized

Restoring snapshot is not supported

Beware of over subscribing host servers

Host is a single point of failure Use host clustering to enhance VM availability

*Avoid Common Pitfalls

Using the Farm Configuration Wizard for production

Problems configuring some Service Applications with PowerShell

Search Service Application

User Profile Service Application

Order of execution and dependencies

Not all site templates support MUI

*SharePoint Service Accounts

Never use a single service account

Create the following accounts SQL Admin Account

Installation Account

SharePoint Farm Administrator

Search Administrator

Default Content Access Account

Application Pool Identity Account

*Deployment Guide

Carefully design and document your SharePoint implementation

Start only the Service Applications you need

Understand SharePoint’s Boundaries – absolute values

Limits – configurable values

Establish a performance baseline Maintain periodic performance measurements

Evaluate using Remote Blob Storage in heavy ECM environments

Limit content databases to 200 GB for collaboration sites

*Resources Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Foundation 2010

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662510.aspx

SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software boundaries and limits

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

Server virtualization validation program http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx

Downloadable white paper: Virtualization of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/f/16f53b33-a118-4d78-a3d8-653a139aec0e/Virtualization_of_SharePoint_Products_and_Technologies_White_Paper_-_final1%20(2).pdf

Questions?

*Thank You

Veenus Maximiuk www.iccblogs.com/blogs/vmaximiuk

vmaximiuk@iccohio.com

Joe Hartsel jhartsel@iccohio.com