To continue this series, in this post I will look at small farm deployments this tends to be where most people end up with their SharePoint deployments. Through this post I will cover two tier farms, three tier farms and also three tier farm optimized for search. But before I begin I thought I would go back to basics with advice for hardware required to run SharePoint 2010 effectively. So for your SharePoint servers both web front end and application server the recommendations are as follows:-
- 64 bit, dual processor, 3GHz
- 8 GB RAM
- Minimal 100 GB disk space
- DVD Drive
- Network / Internet Connectivity
And for your database servers:-
- 64 bit environment
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise + Service Pack 2
- SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 + Cumulative Update 3
- SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 + Cumulative Update 2
Two tier small farm
A two tier farm is predicated to support between 10,000 and 20,000 users with a dedicated SQL server for all SharePoint databases.
Three tier farm
This is very much the classic SharePoint architecture with 2 web front end servers a application server and a dedicated SQL server for all databases.
Three tier farms optimized for search
This is the classic setup but with a dedicated SQL server for the search databases this topology is recommended for farms with up to 10 million items to index.
In the next post I will cover the topology that we are deploying at Twynham.
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