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RBS and Blob Cache in SharePoint 2013

Blob CacheIISCache content on WFETraffic reductionRenditions

RBSSQLRemove BLOBs from

DatabaseStorage cost reductionSQL improve

performance

RBS VS Blob Cache

Cache

Page output cache

Object cache

Anonymous search results cache

BLOB cache

Note:

To use the page output cache or the object cache, you must be using the Publishing feature on your site.

Types of cache in SharePoint 2013

Blob Cache

Improve SQL performance by saving data on WFE

Persistent Cache

Improves HTTP Responses

HTTP range request

Reduce time to open page

Enabling Renditions

Blob Cache saving data on WFE

Save Data on WFE’s local drive

Works perfectly with anonymous access

BUT!

Increasing SQL requests in 5 times in order to create cacheNeed to enable on all WFE’s Add additional 800bytes of memory for each file to keep index

Persistent Cache

Don’t expire after IIS reset

But! If you change data in pages library during Update

Solution/Update Features you need to Flush BLOB Cache

Add Information for browser to cache items

Allows HTTP request for part of a fileSome content viewer, like PDF viewer or media players can

request only part of data

HTTP range request

SharePoint optimized for small size filesLow size files FileReadChunkSize (100kb) with one requestLargeFileChunkSize < 5mb – from SQL without disk buffer> LargeFileChunkSize - from SQL with WFE buffer

Reduce time to open page

Image rendition is a new capability in SharePoint 2013 helps you to optimize images in your SharePoint site through having the same image but in different sizes.

Image Rendition gives you control over the size of your images and allows you to further crop images to get the results you need. Images can be fixed to certain sizes for WebPart use or for use on SharePoint page.

Renditions

Renditions

Prerequisites for managing image renditions

A publishing site collection .Or, publishing features must be enabled on the site collection where you want to use image renditions.

A configured BLOB cache

An asset library (recommended)

Renditions

Renditions

Renditions

Renditions

Renditions

Specify the image rendition in the image URLRenditionID Width   Height   Width and Height

Renditions

Limitations:

Size ~25MB

Maximum Pixel Count 40043584

Renditions

Enable on each IIS site

Enable on each WFE

BLOB Cache How to

BLOB Cache How to

BLOB Cache

Attributes that can be changed

Change this attributes only when planning to use large BLOBS

BLOB Cache

BLOB Cache example

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/53fe4b17-5674-4eea-81b1-e4cf6a562836/image-rendition-file-size-restriction?forum=sharepointgeneral#07add00a-08e7-48f1-8c37-01a57418bb44

IIS Reset – to reinitialize index

Flush BLOB Cache

Disable BLOB cache, delete cache folder, enable cache.

BLOB Cache troubleshooting

SQL Server Remote BLOB Store (RBS) is an optional add-on component that lets database administrators store binary large objects in commodity storage solutions instead of directly on the main database server.

In SharePoint 2013 BLOB is a large block of data stored in a database that is known by its size and location instead of by its structure.

RBS

SharePoint stores all data in MSSQL

MSSQL not very suitable for storing large objects

RBS helps to reduce size of content DB

SharePoint can use FILESTREAM or any other RBS Provider

RBS

Multi-layer data storage

BLOB archiving

Adding not SharePoint libraries to BLOB Storage

Caching of BLOB-object in memory

RBS

Use Fast and expensive storage for actual documents, slow and cheap storage for large, old objects

Filtering for storage data

RBS Multi-layer data storage

Some RBS Providers can archiving specific data even after deleting in SharePoint

Archives works offline and SharePoint doesn’t know about them

Auto-deleting archives after specific time

BLOB archiving

RBS can provide access for SharePoint to third party libraries as it his own

SharePoint create index for this libraries, and end user don’t even know that he use something else.

Adding not only SharePoint libraries to BLOB Storage

Almost the same as IIS BLOB cache

Caching of BLOB-object in memory

BLOB store must be local to SQL Server for Standard license

Basic Orphaned BLOB Garbage Collection

Search for BLOB objects

Sadly, but they are all features provided by FILESTREAM

FILESTREM RBS

Enable FILESTREM on MS SQL Server

Install FILESTREAM RBS

Configure MSSQL Server

Install FILESTREAM RBS

Create Content Databse

Create Database master Key

Install FILESTREAM RBS

Create File Group for RBS Provider

Install FILESTREAM RBS

Create File Stream File for designed path

Install FILESTREAM RBS

Install the RBS package

Ensure that RBS Package installed successfully

Install FILESTREAM RBS

Activate RBS for your Content Databases with PowerShell

Install FILESTREAM RBS

You will need perform an IISRESET and restart the SP Timer Service on all machines in the farm.

Link http://sharepoint-channel.com/i-padabed-shredded-storage-in-sharepoint-2013-video-zapis-doklada-na-spcua-2013

http://hellebuyck.net/?p=109

RBS and Shredded Storage

MS SQL backups doesn’t save content of RBS

SharePoint backup whole content using FILESTREAM provider

Also Third Party Backup System provide saving content (AveDoc, Symantec, etc.)

FILESTREAM RBS provider and Backups

RBS has specific content database size limitations for specific scenarios. (200GB)

Encryption is not supported on BLOBs, even if Transparent Data Encryption is enabled.

RBS does not support using data compression.

Support for database mirroring and log shipping is altered

New Version of file create additional file in RBS

FILESTREAM RBS provider limitations

Files changes frequently

Files that used but not very often

Not very useful

Using a lot of different page components ex: JavaScript, CSS

Using a lot of graphical files

Large Multimedia, video

Planning use of renditions

Useful

Final Notes, BLOB Cache

A large amount of small BLOBs that change often

Encryption of DB

Not very useful

Large BLOBs with mostly read-only access

Improve SQL Service Performance

Use more cheap storage for specific data

Useful

Final Notes, RBS

Questions & Discussion