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.
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Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution Contents Executive summary ....................................................................................................... 5 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 6 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 .................................................................
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution 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 .......................................................
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution Executive summary A Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 farm hosts the core platform services and applications that enable multiple capabilities for its users.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution 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.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution 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.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution The following table shows a high level overview of these product offerings and the hardware and software components: Table 1 High level overview of vStart offerings Hypervisor vStart 50 vStart 100 vStart 200 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Data Center Edition with Hyper-V role enabled9 or VMware ESXi10 Hypervisor servers 2x Dell PowerEdge R620 Windows Server
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution Figure 1 vStart 100 solution components This reference architecture paper used the vStart 100 solution with Microsoft Hyper-V on the hypervisor servers. The components of this solution architecture are as shown in Figure 1. Therefore, all references to vStart in the subsequent sections of this paper refer to the vStart 100m solution.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution Solution architecture As mentioned earlier and shown in Figure 1, the vStart 100m elements and architecture was leveraged for deploying SharePoint 2010 farm. As a part of the farm architecture—described in table 1—three Dell PowerEdge R720 servers were used as the hypervisor servers.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution Figure 2 SharePoint 2010 on vStart - High level architecture overview As shown in Figure 2, the SharePoint 2010 farm roles were placed across all three available hypervisor servers in the Hyper-V cluster. This recommended placement of virtual machines enables equal load on all the hypervisor servers.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution while the failback process is in progress. To avoid disruption of service for any critical applications, the automatic failback was configured to occur only during non-peak hours. However, live migration can be performed manually to failback the virtual machines to the preferred node without causing any service disruption.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution out-of-band management. In addition, uplinks to core infrastructure provide connectivity to the solution support services (AD, DNS, NTP, and database for management applications). SAN – Storage Area Network - This network supports iSCSI data.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution Figure 3 LAN network architecture - High level overview Also, a combination of Network Daughter Card (NDC) and add-in NIC ports was used for the LAN traffic and a Smart Load Balanced (SLB) network team was created with these network ports on each of the Hyper-V cluster nodes.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution VLAN name Virtual switch name Purpose VLAN_F_DB_Cluster vSwitch#2 VLAN_G_WFE_NLB vSwitch#3 Used by SQL DB servers in the SharePoint farm for the SQL failover cluster private communication. Used by WFE servers in the SharePoint farm for the NLB cluster communication.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution Figure 4 SAN Network architecture - High level overview In this reference architecture, four physical network connections were allocated for the iSCSI SAN access on each Hyper-V cluster host. Out of the four available iSCSI connections, two were used by the Hyper-V cluster for the CSV quorum and CSV volume access.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution SharePoint farm configuration The SharePoint 2010 farm configuration, as shown in Figure 2 above, included two Web Front-End (WFE), two Application Servers (APP), and two database servers in a failover cluster. The application servers in the farm were used to host the search query and crawler roles.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution (MPIO) policy - ―Least Queue Depth‖ - was used for load balancing the iSCSI traffic from the virtual machine to the storage arrays. Configuration of Web Front-End (WFE) servers This SharePoint 2010 farm design included two WFE servers. The software matrix for these WFE servers is shown in Table 5.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution Figure 5 Search Service Application - architecture In Figure 5, the index partitions are represented as index 1 and index 2. The two primary index partitions were mirrored, for redundancy, and a copy (or mirror) of the index partition was placed on each application server.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution database virtual machines were also made a part of the Hyper-V failover cluster to provide physical host level high availability. This combination ensures faster database failover times using SQL failover cluster capabilities and provides a second level of high availability using Hyper-V failover clustering.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution Key considerations Leveraging vStart virtualized infrastructure solution for deploying SharePoint Server 2010 farm significantly reduces the time required to plan for the infrastructure and increases the time-to-value.
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution tiers of the SharePoint farm, infrastructure capacity that can accommodate any future needs of a SharePoint farm, and of course, a virtualized infrastructure that is pre-designed, pre-validated, and pre-built with several networking and storage best practices. References Dell solutions for SharePoint: Http://dell.
