The SharePoint Redemption

This is a recap of what I could capture during the Scaling SharePoint 2010 Topologies for Your Organization Session.  The big change here is around Service Applications.  It allows you more flexibility when scaling your architecture.  I will add a follow-up post later covering the migration piece they glanced over in this session as I am attending the migration deep-dive session.

Service Architecture Recap

• Flexible Deployment Model
  • Improved Security Model
  • Claims Based Authentication
• Cross-farm communication via web services
• Service Isolation
  • Each service app uses separate database and optionally separate app pool.
  • Support for multiple service apps for a service with different accounts and databases
• Multi-Tenancy
  • Some Service Apps can be partitioned to handle multiple tenants

Choosing an Architecture

• Consider both logical and physical aspects
• Start with a logical architecture
  • Consolidated vs Distributed
• Build it out as a physical architecture
• Scale out as needed

Logical Topology Considerations

• Business Needs
  • Organization many need isolation between respective services (ie. HR, Legal, etc)
• Regulatory Restrictions
  • Geopolitical
  • Regulatory
• Information Architecture
  • Architecture of web sites influence association to Services

Physical Topology Considerations

• Scale
  • Scale-up/Scale-out needs influence physical topology
• Link Latency
  • Host services close to users and content
• Directory Architecture
  • Host services close to directory for better auth

Scaling Services – Option 1

• Scale within the farm
• Scale-up
• Scale-out on each tier
  • Add WFEs for content servers
  • Additional app servers for computer-intensive services
  • Scale SQL for data-centric services
• “Affinitize”
  • Specific web apps to WFEs using NLBs
  • Services on specific app servers

Scaling Services – Option 2

• Multiple Farms
• Split services into separate farm
  • Security boundary
  • Usage/scale
  • Political/organizational
  • patching flexibility
• Multiple services farms
  • Geo-distributed
  • Load
  • Split search out first

Tags: Beta, Search, SP2010, SPC2009

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