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SHAREPOINT 2007 PERFORMANCE TUNING

Presented by Jacob WilsonSharePoint Practice LeadBross Grouphttp://sharepoint.jacobtwilson.com

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ABOUT ME

MCTS Certified in MOSS 2007 Configuration MCTS Certified in PerformancePoint Server 2007 Application

Development SharePoint Practice Lead and Principal Consultant at Bross

Group Worked with SharePoint 2003 and 2007 over the past

several years Architecture, Installation, Upgrade, Configuration, Custom

Development, and Administration

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SHAREPOINT 2007 PERFORMANCE TUNING

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AGENDA

Hardware IIS Settings Content Databases SQL Server Disks and File Groups Virtualization

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HARDWARE

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SMALL FARM

Server Role Processor Memory Disk Network

WFE/Application (1) ** x64 2.5GHz 4GB

6GB + 30% of the size of the indexed content + 25% free disk space 1Gbps

Database (1) x64 2.5GHz 4GB

120% Planned Storage + 6GB + Future Growth + Log Files + 25% free disk space 1Gbps

*x64 priority: SQL Server, then Application Server, then Web Front End Server WFE.

**Small Server Farms typically combine the Application & WFE Server role into a single server.

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MEDIUM FARM

Server Role Processor Memory Disk Network

Web Front End/Query (2+) x64 Dual Core 3GHz 4GB

6GB + 30% of the size of the indexed content + 25% free disk space 1Gbps

Application (1+) ** x64 Dual Core 3GHz 8GB

6GB + 30% of the size of the indexed content + 25% free disk space 1Gbps

Database (2) *** x64 Dual Core 3GHz 8GB

120% Planned Storage + 6GB + Future Growth + Log Files + 25% free disk space 1Gbps

* x64 priority: SQL Server, then Application Server, then Web Front End Server WFE.

** The Application Server role typically hosts the Index Service and Excel Calculation Service in a Medium Server Farm.

*** SQL Clusters are typical in Medium Server Farm environments.

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LARGE FARM

Server Role Processor Memory Disk Network

Web Front End/Query (4+) x64 Dual Core 3GHz 4GB

6GB + 30% of the size of the indexed content + 25% free disk space 1Gbps

Application (2+) ** x64 Dual Core 3GHz 8GB

6GB + 30% of the size of the indexed content + 25% free disk space 1Gbps

Database (2+) *** x64 Dual Core 3GHz 16GB

120% Planned Storage + 6GB + Future Growth + Log Files + 25% free disk space 1Gbps

*x64 priority: SQL Server, then Application Server, then Web Front End Server WFE.

** Typically there are two Application Server roles in Large Server Farm environments. One dedicated Index Server and one dedicated Excel Services Server. Both of these services are very process intensive.

*** Microsoft recommends one database server per 4 WFE’s for content database storage.

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IIS SETTINGS

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IIS WEB GARDEN – WHAT IS IT?

Within IIS you have the ability to assign multiple worker processes (w3wp.exe) to a given application pool. In traditional IIS web applications this can improve performance in the following two ways: When a worker process for an application

pool stalls another worker process can pick up and process the incoming requests

Round-Robin scheme helps balance workloads and reduces resource contention

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IIS WEB GARDEN – WHEN TO USE IT?

Typically, never do this in SharePoint land More memory consumption More context switching due to inter-

process communication If you do use it start with a baseline, add

one additional worker process at a time, monitor, monitor, monitor, and don’t exceed 3 worker processes per application pool

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IIS PROCESSOR AFFINITY

Allows you to tell IIS which worker processes to run on which processor

This allows for a better use of CPU caches

If you use this for your SharePoint application pools set a baseline, distribute worker processes across CPU’s based on resource consumption (even load), monitor, monitor, and monitor.

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IIS APPLICATION POOL RECYCLING

Done by default in IIS around 2am to 4am in the morning

Good for releasing RAM by those custom developed features, web parts, and timer jobs

Don’t allow the application pools to be recycled during heavy load hours (business hours) as end-users will be impacted with longer page response times and possible service unavailable messages

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CONTENT DATABASES

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CONTENT DATABASES

Microsoft recommends 100GB max on the size of any given content database, why? Backup and Restore Page response time Disaster Recovery

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SQL SERVER DISKS AND FILE GROUPS

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SQL SERVER DISK SUB-SYSTEM

RAID 10 recommended for performance and redundancy

Place tempdb on it’s own physical hard disk

Place content databases on their own physical hard disk

Place transaction logs on their own physical hard disk

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SQL SERVER DISK SUB-SYSTEM

Use multiple data files for large content databases and spread data files across physical hard disks if necessary

To increase search performance use multiple data files for the SSP search database One file group for index tables One file group for search tables

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VIRTUALIZATION

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VIRTUALIZATION

WFE Servers and Application Servers are okay Do not virtualize SQL Server instances Resource contention

During business hours After business hours (Backup) Custom features and web parts

Hyper-V Host: 64 bit architecture, 1 to 1 mapping of virtual CPU’s to physical CPU’s, and RAM based on guests (NUMA boundaries)

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QUESTIONS???

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USEFUL LINKS

Performance and Capacity Planninghttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262971.aspx Tune Web Server Performancehttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298550.aspx IIS and SharePointhttp://

blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/10/29/sharepoint-app-pool-settings.aspx

SharePoint and Hyper-Vhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816955.aspx