An overview of the methods available to monitor and troubleshooting SharePoint performance

2. Jason Warren
• Bonzai Intranet for SharePoint
• Microsoft Office Servers and Services MVP
Infrastructure Architect
@jaspnwarren
jason@dynamicowl.com
Jasonwarren.ca

3. Today’s Agenda
Hardware Requirements
Monitoring Performance
Troubleshooting Performance
Q&A
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance http://bonzai-intranet.com/

4. Intended Audience
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance http://bonzai-intranet.com/
• SharePoint Administrators
• Server Administrators
• Developers
• Anyone who is asked “Why is SharePoint slow?”

5. Hardware Requirements
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance Hardware Requirements http://bonzai-intranet.com/
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6. Hardware MINIMUM Requirements
Production SharePoint Servers
CPU
2013
• 64-bit, 4 cores
2016
• 64-bit, 4 cores
Memory
2013
2016
• 12 GB
• 16 GB
Disk
2013
2016
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance Hardware Requirements http://bonzai-intranet.com/
• 80 GB for system
• 80 GB for system
• 80 GB other drives
Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/cc262485.aspx

7. Hardware MINIMUM Requirements
Production SQL Servers
CPU
• 64-bit, 4 cores for
small deployments
< 1,000 users
• 64-bit, 8 cores for
medium deployments
< 10,000 users
Memory
• 8 GB for small
deployments
• 16 GB for medium
deployments
Disk
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance Hardware Requirements http://bonzai-intranet.com/
• 80 GB for system
+ “it depends”
Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/cc262485.aspx

8. Recommended Hardware
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance http://bonzai-intranet.com/
• The minimums are what you can get away with to remain supported
• Your needs dictate your requirements
• Avoid being cheap for the sake of being cheap
• Requirements mention nothing about component speeds
• Use fastest hardware available (CPU, memory, disk)

9. Building to Scale
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance http://bonzai-intranet.com/
• SharePoint is a scalable platform
• Scale up – add/improve hardware
• CPUs
• Memory
• Disk
• Scale out – add servers
• Focus: underperforming services

10. Monitoring Performance
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11. Performance Monitoring
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance http://bonzai-intranet.com/
• You want to see how your hardware and applications are
performing
• Identify performance issues before they cause problems
• Tools available in Windows + 3rd party
• Create a performance baseline
• Look at performance in a measurable and quantified way

12. Monitoring
Performance
Live Demo
2013 2016

13. Monitoring Recap
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance http://bonzai-intranet.com/
• Be proactive: use performance monitor
• Create a performance baseline
• Ask the business for hardware before you can’t live without it

14. Troubleshooting Performance
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15. Troubleshooting
Performance
Live Demo
2013 2016

16. Troubleshooting Recap
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance http://bonzai-intranet.com/
• Browser tools/fiddler to determine SharePoint/external issue
• SPRequestGuid  Correlation Id  Merge-SPLogFile
• ULS Logs and Execution Time for behind-the-scenes slowness
• Automate activity for intermittent issues

17. Questions?
Q&A
2013 2016

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20. Monitoring Tools
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance http://bonzai-intranet.com/
• Monitoring and maintaining SharePoint Server
• technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758658.aspx
• Performance Monitor (PERFMON.EXE – included in Windows)
• Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL)
• pal.codeplex.com/
• Merge-SPLogFile
• technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607721.aspx
• ULS Viewer
• www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=44020

21. Troubleshooting Tools
SPS Calgary 2017: Dealing with SharePoint Performance http://bonzai-intranet.com/
• Browser Developer Tools (Chrome, FireFox, IE)
• Fiddler
• www.telerik.com/fiddler
• Merge-SPLogFile
• technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607721.aspx
• ULS Viewer
• www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=44020

22. bonzai-intranet.com
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sales@bonzai-intranet.com
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Vancouver B.C. V6B 1N2
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