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May 2012
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010
on Dell vStart Solution
A Reference Architecture for a 3500 concurrent users SharePoint
Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a
SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution
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Contents
Executive summary ....................................................................................................... 5
Introduction ................................................................................................................ 6
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 ...................................................................................... 6
Dell vStart solution ..................................................................................................... 7
SharePoint on vStart ...................................................................................................... 9
Solution architecture ................................................................................................ 10
Network architecture ................................................................................................ 12
LAN architecture ................................................................................................... 13
SAN architecture ................................................................................................... 15
SharePoint farm configuration ..................................................................................... 17
Configuration of Web Front-End (WFE) servers ............................................................... 18
Search service application configuration ................................................................... 18
Network configuration ......................................................................................... 19
Configuration of the database server .......................................................................... 19
Memory configuration .......................................................................................... 20
Key considerations ...................................................................................................... 21
Summary .................................................................................................................. 21
References ................................................................................................................ 22
Tables
Table 1 High level overview of vStart offerings ...................................................................... 8
Table 2 Hardware configuration of hypervisor servers ........................................................... 10
Table 3 SharePoint 2010 farm role placement and failover configuration .................................... 11
Table 4 VLAN to virtual switch mapping - LAN ..................................................................... 14
Table 5 OS and software editions .................................................................................... 17
Table 6 Virtual Machine (VM) configuration ........................................................................ 17
Table 7 SharePoint database volumes ............................................................................... 20
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Figures
Figure 1 vStart 100 solution components ............................................................................. 9
Figure 2 SharePoint 2010 on vStart - High level architecture overview ....................................... 11
Figure 3 LAN network architecture - High level overview ....................................................... 14
Figure 4 SAN Network architecture - High level overview ....................................................... 16
Figure 5 Search Service Application - architecture ............................................................... 19
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Executive summary
A Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 farm hosts the core platform services and applications that
enable multiple capabilities for its users. Since its deployment usually employs a multi-tier
architecture, it is important that the IT decision makers and administrators carefully plan to ensure
service availability and accommodate future growth.
This paper discusses the implementation of a virtualized SharePoint 2010 farm on top of the Dell vStart
solution including the architecture, benefits and the trade-offs in leveraging the underlying vStart
design principles and best practices. Dell vStart is an integrated virtualization infrastructure solution
that enables IT and business stakeholders to accelerate application and IT service delivery. Designed
for reliability, vStart eliminates single points of failure and incorporates redundancy into al l mission
critical components.
Key benefits from the Integration between Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and vStart 100m, Dell’s pre-built
virtualization solution configured for Microsoft Hyper-V, include:
Faster time to value: Leveraging vStart infrastructure for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm
deployment enables faster time-to-value1 for the SharePoint application.
High Availability: The underlying vStart design along with application best practices
ensure high availability of all SharePoint farm roles.
helps
Performance and scale to support mid to large organizations: The SharePoint Server 2010
virtualized farm architecture in this paper was validated on up to 3500 concurrent users with a
farm response time of 0.1 seconds and approximately 285 requests per second with a
collaboration usage profile.
Additional information on SharePoint 2010 design and deployment best practices is available from
www.dell.com/sharepoint.
Benefits with vStart – A case study: http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/enterprise/b/inside-
enterprise-it/archive/2012/02/27/broadart-achieves-rapid-virtualization-benefits-with-vstart.aspx
SharePoint Server 2010 – Infrastructure Planning and Deployment guides:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg581794.aspx
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Introduction
IT decision-makers and administrators routinely balance business demands for rapid deployment against
infrastructure imperatives such as meticulous planning for required capacity, developing best practices
for application deployment and providing scalability for future growth.
Dell vStart is a pre-integrated virtualization infrastructure solution that enables IT and business
stakeholders to accelerate application and IT service delivery, while addressing infrastructure
imperatives. With an infrastructure that is up and running within days, the IT department can rapidly
deploy their applications and start delivering value to their customers.
This paper discusses how vStart 100 Hyper-V solution can be used to deploy a virtualized SharePoint
2010 farm, as well as the best practices and trade-offs in this approach.
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 builds on the capabilities that were offered in Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007, which provides a rich platform for collaboration, information sharing, and
document management. SharePoint 2010 adds several new features, and introduces important
architectural changes and product improvements.
A SharePoint server farm is a collection of servers that collectively provide the services required by a
SharePoint deployment. Some of these services, or sets of services, comprise predefined roles, and
must be configured within the solution. Other services and components are optional, but they provide
additional features and functionality that are often desirable. These optional components may include
service applications, such as managed metadata and Excel services. Some constraints and best
practices help determine which components should be located on each server in the farm. Also, by
considering how the components are distributed, a SharePoint farm can be designed to easily
accommodate later growth.
NOTE: In SharePoint Server 2010, components generally provide functionality for a given service
application. As a result, this paper may use the terms role and component interchangeably. In this
context, SharePoint roles refer to one or more components that provide a farm service, and should not
be confused with Windows Server roles, which generally include one or more Windows services to
provide operating system functionality.
The size and capacity of a SharePoint 2010 implementation vary based on several factors, such as the
number of concurrent users, service applications in the farm, the expected uptime service-level
agreement (SLA), and others. These factors dictate how many servers are needed in the SharePoint
farm and how the overall farm architecture looks. Based on the these factors, SharePoint Server 2010
farm implementations can be classified as small farm3, medium farm4 and a large farm5 deployments.
SharePoint 2010 – Designing and implementing a small farm:
http://i.dell.com/sites/content/business/solutions/whitepapers/en/Documents/dell-small-sharepointfarm.pdf
SharePoint 2010 – Designing and implementing a medium farm:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/services/dell_medium_sharepoint_farm.pdf
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For more information on the Dell SharePoint reference architecture guidance, performance sizing and
best practices, refer to the white papers available at http://www.dell.com/sharepoint.
Dell vStart solution
Dell vStart is a virtualization solution that enables IT and business stakeholders to accelerate
application and IT service delivery. It is a pre-engineered and pre-built solution with Dell PowerEdge
servers, Dell EqualLogic Storage, Dell PowerConnect Networking, and Dell Management software
delivered with a complete deployment and support services. The solution leverages a choice of VMware
vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms. The solutions vary based upon the amount of
server and storage resources.
The vStart solutions enable organizations to get started with the application workload deployment
without the need for extensive design and configuration cycles by leveraging the experience of Dell in
virtualization infrastructure, which allows for rapid deployment. The vStart solution is offered as three
configurations: vStart 506, 1007 and 2008.
SharePoint 2010 – Designing and implementing a large farm
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/services/dell_large_sharepoint_farm.pdf
Dell vStart 50 Product Details: http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/dell-vstart-50/pd
Dell vStart 100 Product Details: http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/dell-vstart-v100/pd
Dell vStart 200 Product Details: http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/dell-vstart-v200/pd
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