SPSFlorence: Improve your SharePoint and Office 365 Performance

20th June 2015Florence

20th June 2015Florence

Introduction to Performance Optimization for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365

Gokan Ozcifci@gokanozcifci

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Gokan Ozcifci

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What about this session?What does performance really mean?

Provide some insights and tips about Performance improvements.

TechNet/MSDN is not always your answer.

Other platforms also matters and why?

Everybody has his own experience.

85 – 95% you already know this.

90/10 (On-Premises – Cloud)

The difference in vision

Azure & O365

Exchange & Lync +

Voice

Cloud Ready

Windows Server

Authentication and

Authorization

System Center 2012

ITSM / ITIL

Migrations

Integrations

OTB Workflows Dashboards

Home made

applications

Portals and Intranets

ReportsOffice Pack

Infrastructure Business Productivities.

The Microsoft Expertise. A real added value.

The difference in vision

Infrastructure Business Productivities.

The Microsoft Expertise. A real added value.

Understand SharePoint

SharePoint covers a huge set of individual technologies under the SharePoint Platform umbrella

Application DomainActive DirectorySQL ServerOffice Web Apps Server…

It requires time, patience and experience as it’s continuously changingKnow when to use OOTB vs Custom ComponentsKnow your users

Understand SharePointNew Service Applications (Machine Translation)Offloaded Services: Yammer, OneDrive for Business, Office Web Apps, Workflow Manager…Improved Service Applications (Fast)Not UI Bindended Services to be managed with PoSH (Subscription Management)Re-architected Service Applications (Search & OWA)

Different release scheduleOWA can be used for other platforms like Lync, Exchange, …

SharePoint is down!

What is really down?

SharePoint is more than a List, Library or site.

For the business, if …

For the business, if …

First page hit

Subsequent page hits

Create a site,

list or library

File upload (3 MB)

< 5 Seconds < 3 Seconds < 5 Seconds < 5 Seconds

N-Tier, N-Layer

#1 Train your UsersSet measurable goalsDraw a RoadmapDefine and pick some pilotsChoose your Site Content and Site OwnersTrain your users

… again… and again

Technical Improvements

Fine-tuning Client Side

Operating System. Install Latest updates. At least Windows 7. Silverlight 3.

Office 2013.

Antivirus. Exclude files from real-time scan for Enterprise computers:

Turn off scanning:Windows Update or Automatic

Update related filesWindows Security files

Group Policy related filesSYSVOL files DFS and DHCP files

Fine-tuning Client Side

Microsoft Office. Use the newest Office Version for best compatibility

Microsoft Office 2010 with Service Pack 2 With KB 2553248

Microsoft Office 2007 with Service Pack 2 With KB 2583910

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 with Service Pack 1

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac version 12.2.9

Support ends April 9, 2013.

Internet Explorer. SharePoint 2013 supports several commonly used web browsers, such as

Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari. However, certain web browsers could cause some SharePoint 2013 functionality to be downgraded, limited, or available only through alternative steps.

Supported: Internet Explorer 11, Internet Explorer 10, Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 8

Fine-tuning NetworkLatency between SharePoint Server and SQL Server should be less than 1msHost all the servers in the same datacenter. /!\ If the datacenter has a problem, your SharePoint farm can be down /!\Don’t use Network Load Balancing (NLB), but a real load balancer like F5

VLANs can provide significant throughput gains: • VMs on the same VLAN can communicate through the

virtual switch, network traffic is faster because it does not have to use the physical network adapter.

• As it’s software-based, a virtual machine can easily be moved between hosts and still keeps its network configuration.

Fine-tuning Windows Server

Windows Server performance options

Computer > Properties > Advanced system settings > Performance > Settings > Visual Effects

Fine-tuning Windows Server

Determine page file size

Factor 1,5 of the server RAM. Ex:

8192 MB RAM x 1,5 = 12288 MB page file

Computer > Properties > Advanced system settings > Performance > Settings > Advanced > Virtual Memory > Settings

Fine-tuning Windows Server

Use the proper power plan

High Performance

Start > Control Panel > Power Options

Fine-tuning Windows Server

Stop / disable unused services

Spooler

AudioSrv

TabletInputService

WerSvc services

Fine-tuning Windows Server

Loopback check

On test servers or use BackConnectionHostNames in a Production environment

Fine-tuning Windows Server

Patching

Install latest OS and SharePoint updates

(If necessary!)

Fine-tuning Windows Server

SQL Alias

cliconfg.exe

• Operational tasks

• maintenance is easier.

• Upgrades

• Downgrades

Fine-tuning Windows Server

Windows Firewall

Manually define the SQL rules on the Windows Firewall

• 1433 (TCP)

• 1434 (UDP)

Fine-tuning Windows Server

Antivirus

Exclude files from real-time scan Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions

Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Logs

Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Data\Applications

Fine-tuning Windows Server

Reduce I/O

System, Log and Index files should be on separate disks.

• C: System

• G: Index

• H: Logs

Fine-tuning SQL Server

Physical vs Virtual• Easier to scale up & down

• Hyper-V Cluster in Windows Server 2012 will allow you to easily move machines between hosts when there are updates or problems

• Can be easier to recover at DR. You're not in the position to reload the OS, reload SQL Server

Fine-tuning SQL Server

Small Farm Deployment (0-500GB of Data)

Medium Farm Deployment (501-1TB of data)

Large Farm Deployment (1-2TB of Data)

Very Large Farm Deployment (2-5 TB of Data)

Special Cases

RAM 8 16 32 64 64+

CPU 4 4 8 8 8

Fine-tuning SQL Server

Dedicated SQL Server For optimal performance when operating server farms, we recommend that you install SQL Server 2008 R2 with SP1 and SQL Server 2012 on a dedicated server that is not running other roles of farm and n 'not host databases for other applications

Dedicated Instance

Fine-tuning SQL Server

Collation: Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS

Cannot be changed after wise

Windows

AuthenticationNo Mixed Mode

Fine-tuning SQL Server

Create your Databases with PoSH!

Fine-tuning SQL Server

• Use a dedicated search instance > 10’000’000 items

• Antivirus: Exclude data files, transaction logs and backup files from real-time scan

• Install only features and components you need. SharePoint only requires: Database Engine Services

• Do not enable Statistics

Fine-tuning SQL Server

Set min. and max. Server• /!\ Total amount memory x 0,80 /!\ The default value of SQL Server for

Maximum Memory is : 2147483647 MB

Maximum fill factor per index (80%)

Activate backup compression• It’s faster and needs less disks space

Max Degree of Parallelism (MAXDOP) = 1

• Prerequisite for SharePoint 2013

Fine-tuning SQL Server

NFTS Allocation Unit Size: 64K

• SQL reads and writes 64K at a time, but your disk allows only 4K by default. This change alone may show you up to 30% improvement in speed.

• “chkdsk c:”

• Cannot be changed expect formatting

Fine-tuning SQL Server

Model DatabaseEvery time a new Content Database is

created by SharePoint to store your Web Application, SQL uses the information in the Model Database to create it.

Initial Size:This will help performance, as SQL won’t have to constantly ask for more space to store

data.

Auto Growth:Do not keep the default value which is 1 MB. When a document of 5 MB is uploaded,

it means there are 5 Autogrowth which are activated. In fact, there are 5 allocations of space which must slow your system.

Moreover, your uploaded document will be fragmented across your different data files. This configuration will decrease your performance a second time.

Fine-tuning SQL Server

Data prioritization among faster disks (descending)

• Temp DB data files

• Temp DB logs

• Content DB logs

• Search DB data files

• Content DB data files

• Search DB logs

• SharePoint data files

• SharePoint logs

Fine-tuning SharePoint Server (architecture)

• Content Databases shouldn’t be more than 200GB• Backup / Restore

• Operational tasks

• 5000 Site collections per Content Database

• 10 Application Pools (can be extended depending hardware)

• 20 web Applications per SharePoint Farm

• Don’t use the Product Configuration Wizard

Fine-tuning SharePoint Server (settings)

• Set Quotas on all Web Applications

• Disable Certificate Revocation List

• Authentication

• Anonymous, Claims, Kerberos, NTLM, Forms, ADFS

• Wake-Up

• Only extend if you have a different authentication protocol.

Fine-tuning SharePoint Server (Search)

• Distribute the load on multiple crawl servers

• Throttle crawling, adjust crawling schedule

• Incremental vs continuous crawl

• Content sources

• Group by

Fine-tuning SharePoint Server (Search)

Fine-tuning SharePoint Server caching

• Distributed Cache

• Object Cache (SuperUser, SuperReader)

• BLOB Cache

• Output cache (caches SC, Publishing features)

Fine-tuning SharePoint Server (Resource-intensive Service Applications)

• Excel Service Application

• Search Service Application

• Usage and Health Data collection

• User Profile Service Application

Fine-tuning SharePoint Server (Performance killer)

• Application Pool Recycle && IISReset

• Crawl Jobs (continuous crawl)

• Backup Jobs

• Large list operations

Fine-tuning PowerShell

• Try to avoid –Force

Use the Force switch only for fixing broken deployments of SharePoint Packages. Not only it makes SharePoint stop affected Application Pools but also it prevents you from seeing errors should there be any.

Fine-tuning PowerShell

• Scope your Solutions with PoSH

• When a solution is deployed globally, all SharePoint application pools, including Central Administration’s, are recycled automatically. This can be good and bad. This is good because any GAC installed DLL that has been upgraded needs to be reloaded. This can be bad though with regards to the availability of your entire SharePoint Farm.

Fine-tuning Office 365

1,000ms

5,000ms

The slowest 1% of pages in SharePoint online take more

than 5,000ms to load75% of SharePoint Online pages load in less than 1,000ms

Fine-tuning Office 365

Internet peering and routing

Customer Internet connection

Microsoft network

Microsoft edge nodes

Content delivery network

Serverworkloads

Rich clientapplications

Why SharePoint pages get slow…

Server

Browser

Network

Complex pagesToo many web parts

Large payloadToo many filesLarge distance to server

Complex pagesBusy computerSmall cache

Server

Expensive server interactionsFront end cache misses

Network

MicrosoftNetwork

Internet

ISP

CDN

SharePoint Online bandwidth usage

• Web Based File upload and download

• Sync client is the main bandwidth user

• OneDrive for Business initial sync traffic

SharePoint Online ImagesKeep them small

• Compress images before uploading them to SharePoint

Reduce download sizes• Minify all JavaScript and CSS assets

Reduce the number of HTTP requests• Bundle static assets together to reduce HTTP

requests

• Deliver static content via CDN’s if possible

• Parallelize downloads across multiple hostnames

Troubleshooting performance process

Network Capture tool

• Netmon

• WireShark

• TCPDump

• Microsoft Message Analyzer

Application Level tools

• HTTPWatch

• Fiddler

Summary

• Performance -, it depends

• Other platforms also matters

• SharePoint is fast, but depends many about others

• You can improve, improve and improve

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