Sql Server 2008 And Moss

MOSS 2007 and SQL 2008A must!
Ing. Eduardo Castro, PhD
ecastro@mswindowscr.orgComunidad Windows

Agenda
MOSS Database Review
New SQL 2008 Features Relevant to MOSS
Database Backup Compression
(up to 89% less disk space)
Backup Compression with HA/DR
(restore times up to 50% less with up to 89% less network usage)
Database Mirroring Enhancements
(increase availability while reducing network usage by up to 73%)
Failover Clustering
(much easier to install and manage with increased reliability)
Transparent Data Encryption and Backup Encryption
(encrypt all data seamlessly)
Performance Studio, Central Management, and Policy-Based Management
(reduce DBA workload)
Additional Resources

Step by Step Guide
http://andreasglaser.net/post/2008/08/14/Installing-MOSS-2007-on-Windows-Server-2008-and-SQL-Server-2008-Part-1-Overview.aspx

SharePoint and SQL Server 2008
Any flavor of SharePoint will benefit
Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Standard or Enterprise)
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
You need SP1 to make it work!
Existing install: Upgrade to SP1
Clean install: Download SharePoint w/SP1 slipstream

SharePoint Databases
Configuration – One per farm, stores information about the farm topology and settings
Content – Stores all content; it is usual to have several content databases
WSS Search – Property store for WSS search
SSP Search – Displayable document properties/metadata for MOSS Search
Single Sign-On – SSO credential mappings
SSP – Other Shared Services such as user profiles, audiences, etc.

Site Collections and Content Databases

Content Database Example
Company Portal
Document Repository
Team Sites
http://knowledge
http://team
Dept. Portals
Central AdminSite
SSP AdminSite
http://portal
http://someserver:40203
http://someserver:31415
My Sites
Web application
Content DB
Site Collection
http://my

Database Backups & MOSS
Database Backups are a large part of backing up SharePoint
They’re not everything … still need to address:
Filesystem:
Installed features
Server configuration, IIS Metabase
Search index
Granular Restores
Recycle bin helps
Data Protection Manager 2007
3rd party tools (AvePoint, Commvault, EMC, etc.)
Still backing up DB’s is the most important overall and takes up the majority of disk space

Compressed By Default
One checkboxturns oncompressionfor allbackups – evenfrom SharePointCentral Admin!

Backup Compression Example
Content database with ~370K documents
SQL 2008 with compression ran the backup 48% faster and used 80% less disk space compared to SQL 2005
Backup Compression can reduce maintenance and hardware expenditures by reducing disk space for backups delaying the need for new Content databases
(test corpus was 360,000 text files)

DEMONSTRATION
Compressing SharepointBackups

MOSS High Availability
Load Balancing
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MOSS with SQLClustering
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MOSS with SQLMirroring or LogShipping
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Mirroring orLog Shipping

Backup Compression with HA/DR
Database backups are needed for many high availability and disaster recovery methods such as Log Shipping and Database Mirroring
Using backup compression can significantly reduce the time required for initialize and recovery of your MOSS HA/DR environment
Can significantly improveService Level Agreements(SLA) by reducingdown time
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Database Mirroring
Popular HA/DR solution that offers zero-to-minimal data-loss for your MOSS database environment
Out-Of-The-Box with
SQL Server 2008 STD/EE
Up To 73% Compression
SQL Server 2008 introduces several new features including log stream compression and bad page protection
Great for low bandwidth & heavy log operations (ex. index rebuild)
Reduce the cost of network bandwidth in your HA/DR environment
Additional protection against failing storage hardware (i.e. disks)
Can reduce network utilization or improve Service Level Agreement (SLA) depending on transaction patterns

Failover Clustering
Rolling upgrade/patch support for SQL Server failover clusters to minimize downtime
Improve failover cluster setup reliability
Integrated OS cluster health checks
Integrated SQL Server setup health checks
Leverage new setup architecture
Enable for sysprep and slip-stream
Distributed setup on each node – No remote execution
Align with Windows Server 2008 features
16-node failover clusters with SQL 2008 EE
More nodes are perfect for shared DB environments
IPV6 and DHCP support
Heterogeneous hardware and iSCSI support
Not aligned with OR dependencies
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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
New Feature In SQL 2008
Transparently encrypts entire database
Encrypt all data seamlessly
This includes backups, transaction logs, and tempdb
Easy to Implement
No programming changes required to implement
Low impact (~3-5% CPU) and can be much lower if most of the data is stored in memory
Easy to implement with MOSS
Recommended to implement at a Content database
All Sites within Site Collections are protected
No changes to MOSS (i.e. transparent)
Consider moving sites which need encryption to their own SQL Server instance for performance

Performance Studio
New Feature in SQL Server 2008 for Performance Management (i.e. monitoring and troubleshooting)
SQL Server Performance Dashboard based on system collection sets reports
Sever Activity
High level SQL Server and system information
Should be turned on all the time
Low overhead (that is, <5 percent)
Query Statistics
Detailed SQL Server information
Drill down to performance issues root cause
Disk Usage - general disk activity information per database
Ability for data to be recorded historically and to be persisted across service restarts

PerformanceStudio
Benefits
Capacity Planning
Troubleshooting
Determine Usage
ex. Peaks, Spikes, etc.
Advantages for MOSS
Determine heavily utilized content database or sites
Examine usage patterns across a 24 period when your not monitoring the database directly
Capacity planning for moving sites into new site collections

Central Management
New Feature in SQL Server 2008 to centrally manage registered servers and groups of servers
New Query
Execute queries against a single registered server or a group of servers
Ability to run TSQL against all SQL Server instances
Evaluate Policies
Works with new policy-based management to check policies

Central Management
Great for managing MOSS installations that span more than one SQL Server instance or MOSS databases that reside in shared SQL Server environments
Example: SELECT @@VERSION AS ‘SQL Server Version’

Policy-based Management
Policy-based management framework for the SQL Server Database Engine
Ensure compliance with policies for system configuration
Implement and enforce best practices
Prevent/monitor changes to the system by authoring policies for the desired configuration
Scale management across multiple servers
Reduce Total Cost of Ownership by simplifying administration tasks

Evaluating Policy
On Demand (this is the default)
Evaluated when the user right clicks on the policy and selects Evaluate from the menu.
On Schedule (SQL 2008 only)
Takes advantage of SQL Agent to check the policy on a scheduled basis
On Change - Log Only (SQL 2008 only)
Evaluates a policy when a change is made and alerts administrators when there is a policy failure
On Change – Prevent (SQL 2008 only)
Uses DDL triggers to prevent policy violations

Policy-based Management Example
MOSS - Best Practices for Capacity Management
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335963.aspx
Best Practice of maximum of 5TB per SQL Server instance and 100GB per Content database
Create a policy to check the size of each content database
Create another policy to check the size of all content databases on an entire SQL Server instance
On SQL 2008, schedule the policy to be checked periodically
On SQL 2000/2005, check the policy on demand using the Central Management capabilities of SQL Server 2008
NOTE: Can be combined with Windows PowerShell to run on-demand policy on a scheduled basis

DEMONSTRATION
Using SQL Server 2008 Policy

Additional Resources
See our blogs for:
http://comunidadwindows.org
Eduardo Castro Bloghttp://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://andreasglaser.net/post/2008/08/14/Installing-MOSS-2007-on-Windows-Server-2008-and-SQL-Server-2008-Part-1-Overview.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/bobgerman/archive/2009/04/07/moss-2007-and-sql-server-2008-better-together.aspx

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