Specifications

A Principled Technologies test report 20
Hardware upgrades to improve database, SharePoint, Exchange, and
file server performance with the Intel processor-powered Dell
PowerEdge T630
Installing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
1. Insert the installation DVD.
2. Launch setup.exe, and click Install software prerequisites.
3. Review the list of software, and click Next.
4. Accept the EULA, and click Next.
5. When the prerequisites finish installing, click Finish.
6. On the main SharePoint installation menu, click Install SharePoint Server.
7. Enter your product license key, and click Continue.
8. Accept the EULA, and click Continue.
9. Choose the Complete server type, and click Install.
10. When the installation finishes, check the box for Run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard now, and
click Close.
11. On the Welcome to SharePoint Products screen, click Next.
12. On the pop-up warning about services that will need to be restarted during the configuration, click Yes.
13. Choose Create a new server farm, and click Next.
14. Enter the name of your existing database instance on the same application server.
15. Specify a username and password, and click Next.
16. Enter a passphrase into the Passphrase and Confirm Passphrase fields, and click Next.
17. Leave the default settings on the Configure SharePoint Central Administration Web Application screen, and click
Next.
18. Verify your settings, and click Next.
19. When the wizard has completed the configuration, click Finish.
20. Choose Run the farm configuration wizard on the Central Administration site.
21. Choose the services you wish to include in your server farm, and click Next.
22. Enter the specifications for the new site, and click OK.
23. Click Finish.
Configuring the database (DVD Store)
Data generation overview
We generated the data using the Install.pl script included with DVD Store version 2.1 (DS2), providing the
parameters for our 40GB database size and the database platform on which we ran: Microsoft SQL Server. We ran the
Install.pl script on a utility system running Linux. The database schema was also generated by the Install.pl script.
After processing the data generation, we transferred the data files and schema creation files to a Windows-
based system running SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. We built the 40GB database in SQL Server 2008 R2, and then performed
a full backup, storing the backup file on the C: drive for quick access. We used that backup file to restore to the servers
between test runs. We performed this procedure once.
The only modification we made to the schema creation scripts were the specified file sizes for our database. We
explicitly set the file sizes higher than necessary to ensure that no file-growth activity would affect the outputs of the