1. SharePoint Performance: Jason Himmelstein Senior Technical Director, SharePoint @sharepointlhorn http://blog.sharepointlonghorn.com

2. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation Senior Technical Director, SharePoint at Atrion Microsoft vTSP virtual Technology Solutions Professional SharePoint Foundation Logger http://spflogger.codeplex.com Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com Twitter: @sharepointlhorn LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jasonhimmelstein Email: jase@sharepointlonghorn.com Author of Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint http://bit.ly/SharePointBI 3. Agenda Infrastructure Design SQL Server Performance SharePoint Server Performance 4. Infrastructure Design Analyze Customer Requirements High Availability Disaster Recovery Budget Constraints Location Awareness Number of Concurrent Users 5. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation Infrastructure Design Hardware requirements Web servers & Application servers SQL servers What constitutes a small/medium/large farm? Developer or Evaluation environments CPU: 4 cores, 64-bit required RAM: 4GB Hard Drive space: 80GB Production in Single Server or farm environments CPU: 4 cores, 64-bit required RAM: 8GB Hard Drive space: 80GB Small Farm CPU: 4 cores, 64-bit required RAM: 8GB Hard Drive space: 80GB Medium Farm CPU: 8 cores, 64-bit required RAM: 16GB Hard Drive space: 80GB Large Farm Up to 2TB Content DBS RAM: 32 GB From 2TB to 5TB Content DBS RAM: 64 GB 6. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation Infrastructure Design Server configuration Small Farm 7. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation Infrastructure Design Server configuration Scaled Farm 8. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation Infrastructure Design 9. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation Infrastructure Design Network recommendations Traffic Isolation Web Database Search Service Applications Authentication Number of NICs per server Limit the number of hops Colocation of servers Close location of Virtual Servers 10. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation Infrastructure Design Physical Benefits No virtualization overhead Ability to target DBs to separate physical spindles Only OS limits on Hardware Simple Networking Drawbacks Backup & recovery time Limited snapshot ability Costly & lacking Centralized Management Budget constrained failover options 11. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation Infrastructure Design Virtualization Benefits Snapshot capability Rapid system deployment HADR ability Centralized Management Drawbacks Loss of minimum 8% compute for overhead Limitations on addressing full hardware Disks are stored as single/multi-file Centralized Networking Clustering complications 12. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation Pre-grow databases Requires more space initially Dramatic increase in performance Databases like contiguous space SQL Server Performance 13. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SQL Server Performance Auto-growth Immediately change from 1m increments Do not use Grow by % setting 50-100m maximum growth per required Schedule maintenance task to check size & grow in off peak hours as required 14. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SQL Server Performance Instant File Initialization Allows for faster execution Does not fill that space with zeros disk content is overwritten as new data is written to the files Log files cannot be initialized instantaneously 15. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SQL Server Performance IO requirements DB Files RAID Level Optimization 1 TempDB data 10 Write 2 TempDB logs 10 Write 3 ContentDB data 10 ReadWrite 4 ContentDB logs 10 Write 5 Crawl DB logs 10 Write 6 Crawl DB data 10 ReadWrite 7 Property DB logs 10 Write 8 Property DB data 10 Write 9 Services DB logs 10 Write 10 Services DB data 5/10 ReadWrite 11 Archive Content DB 5 Read 12 Publishing Site Content DB 5 Read 16. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SQL Server Performance Sizing recommendations Recommended limit for ContentDBs: 200G Maximum supported: 4TB Includes Remote BLOBs Backup/Restore timing Simple vs. Full recovery mode 17. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SQL Server Performance Database Instance Isolation Secure Store Database SharePoint core databases Content Databases Search Highly Transactional non-SharePoint DBs Drawback Lose the central management in a single SQL Server Management Studio window 18. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SharePoint Server Performance Tier isolation vs. Location Proximity Requirements Separation via vLAN Less chatter Increased hop count Collocating SharePoint in a single vLAN Increased chatter Lower hop count Key take away Know your network, determine your topology based upon traffic & requirements 19. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SharePoint Server Performance Load balancing your App Tier Know your load Scale based upon need, not perception Find your choke point, then release the grasp Dont assume, validate! 20. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SharePoint Server Performance Load testing in your environment Example 2 Web Servers (4cores, 16GB RAM) using NLB 1 App Server (4cores, 16 GB RAM) 1 SQL Server Instance (16cores, 128GB RAM) Simple CRUD operations Login, create list item, open item, modify item, save item, delete item, log out 21. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SharePoint Server Performance Load testing in your environment Results Farm was completely non-responsive at ~500 concurrent users Root cause Watching this test on the server side we found that we were immediately CPU bound. Conclusion Add CPUs or Web Servers to the farm to handle additional load 22. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation and now its time for 23. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SharePoint Server Performance Governance & Troubleshooting Determine tolerance for custom solutions Encourage Sandbox Solutions Require SPDisposeCheck Require SPMonitored Scope If you dont have a Dev/QA Environment, you dont have a Production Environment Never test patches in Production Educate on the Developer Dashboard 24. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation SharePoint Server Performance Governance & Troubleshooting Never accept a solution that is not a WSP Respect your users, or you wont have any Limit the number of Farm Admins Minimize Server Sprawl Audit your environment regularly Survey your users regularly Engage your Executive Sponsorship 25. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation References Jasons Blog SharePoint Foundation Logger http://www.sharepointlonghorn.com http://spflogger.codeplex.com Sebs Blog http://www.sebmatthews.net Jasons Article on SharePoint Pro http://www.sharepointpromag.com/content1/topic/sharepoint-performance-troubleshooting-141506/catpath/sharepoint-server-2010 Eric Shuppss Blog http://www.sharepointcowboy.com SharePoint Server 2010 Hardware and software requirements http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx SharePoint Server 2010 Capacity Management: Software Boundaries and Limits http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx Capacity Management and Sizing Overview for SharePoint Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758647.aspx Capacity Planning for SharePoint Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758645.aspx Performance Testing for SharePoint Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758659.aspx Storage and SQL Server Capacity Planning and Configuration http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801.aspx Performance and Capacity Technical Case Studies http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261716.aspx Monitoring and Maintaining SharePoint Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758658.aspx Performance Testing for SharePoint Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758659.aspx The Load Testing Kit for Visual Studio Team System http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff823731.aspx Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) http://www.iis.net/community/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1466 26. 2009 Atrion Networking Corporation Senior Technical Director, SharePoint at Atrion Microsoft vTSP virtual Technology Solutions Professional SharePoint Foundation Logger http://spflogger.codeplex.com Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com Twitter: @sharepointlhorn LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jasonhimmelstein Email: jase@sharepointlonghorn.com Author of Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint http://bit.ly/SharePointBI