1. Getting SharePoint 2010
Deployment Right
Veenus Maximiuk
SharePoint Managing Architect
ICC

2. *Agenda
Common Deployment Mistakes
Installation and Configuration Approaches
New Services Architecture
Virtualization Deployment Considerations
Avoid the Common Pitfalls
Questions

3. *Common Deployment
Mistakes
Poor planning
Using the Farm Configuration Wizard for
production
Use one service account for everything
Provision all service applications

4. *Installation and
Configuration
Point-n-click Deployments
SharePoint Configuration Wizard
Farm Configuration Wizard
Scripted Deployments
PowerShell
stsadm/PSConfig

5. * SharePoint Configuration Wizard
Automatically launches the UI for PSConfig

6. * SharePoint Configuration Wizard
Automatically creates Central Administration
Database Name

7. *Farm Configuration Wizard

8. *Farm Configuration Wizard

9. * Service Applications DBs Using
Configuration Wizard

10. * Service Applications DBs Using
Configuration Wizard

11. *Configuration Wizard
Recommendations
Recommend for
Development
Proof of Concept
Not best for production
Too many services
Automatically creates database names for
service applications

12. *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

13. *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

14. * Service Applications DBs Using PowerShell

15. *Using PowerShell
DEMO

16. *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?

17. *Service Application per Edition
Service applications Stores data? Cross- SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint
farm? Foundation Server 2010 Server 2010
2010 Standard 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 DB X X X
Subscription Settings Service

18. * Service Application Dependencies
Service Applications Business Managed Secure State Usage and
Data Metadata Store Health Data
Connectivity
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

19. * 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 Subscription Settings Small
Service
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, State Medium-large
InfoPath Forms Services
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

20. *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.

21. *Virtual Host Guideline
• Dedicated hosts for SharePoint Virtual Guests
• Assume 1GB of memory taken by host OS (Hyper-V),
General 3rd party varies
• No Software on Host OS! (Except A/V or Backup)
• Allocate Direct / Passthrough NICs when possible
NICs • Create dedicated NIC for Management
• Create dedicated NIC for Failover
• Dedicated spindles for SharePoint
• Dedicated volume for Host OS
Disk • Dedicated volume for Guest OS VHDs
• Dedicated volume for Databases and Logs
• Do not over allocate (applies to memory as well)
Processor • No more than 2 vCPUs for every Core on host
• For optimal performance use 1:1 ratio

22. *Virtualization Role
• Excellent Virtualization Candidate
Web • Can be easily provisioned via templates
Query/ • Higher proc/mem requirements, but still good candidate
• Often paired with SP2010 Web Role
Crawl
• Higher proc/mem requirements, but still good candidate
App • Low disk requirements compared to other roles
• Requires the most memory, proc, and disk IO
DB • Be cautious when virtualizing, make sure host is scaled
• If virtual, be sure to use pass-through or fixed size disks

23. * Performance Counters Threshold
on Hosts
Processor Network Bandwidth –
<60% Utilization = Good Bytes Total/sec
60%-90% = Caution <40% Utilization = Good
>90% = Trouble 41%-64% = Caution
Available Memory >65% = Trouble
50% and above = Good Network Latency -
10%-50% = OK Output Queue Length
<10% = Trouble 0 = Good
1-2= OK
Disk – Avg. Disk sec/Read
or Avg. Disk sec/Write >2 = Trouble
Up to 15ms = fine
15ms-25ms = Caution
>25ms = Trouble

24. * Performance Counters Threshold
on Guests
Processor (N/A) Network Bandwidth –
Virtual NIC Bytes Total/sec
Available Memory <40% Utilization = Good
41%-64% = Caution
50% and above = Good
>65% = Trouble
10%-50% = OK
<10% = Trouble Network Latency - Output
Disk – Avg. Disk sec/Read Queue Length
or Avg. Disk sec/Write 0 = Good
1-2= OK
Up to 15ms = fine
>2 = Trouble
15ms-25ms = Caution
>25ms = Trouble

25. *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

26. *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

27. *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

28. *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

29. *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_Techn
ologies_White_Paper_-_final1%20(2).pdf

30. Questions?

31. *Thank You
Veenus Maximiuk
www.iccblogs.com/blogs/vmaximiuk
vmaximiuk@iccohio.com
Joe Hartsel
jhartsel@iccohio.com