5. Logical Farm Topology Three tier farm design Web Front End Servers Application Servers Database Servers Five server farm SharePoint 2010 Farm Design
12. MSS2010 Farm Setup Farm 1: Intranet Production The production farm that hosts collaboration team-sites Farm 2: Staging / Integration Test As new and changed content, configuration and code cannot be tested in the production farm ”Farm 3”: Test & Training For user test & training, can be hosted on the intranet farm Farm N1..i: Development single-server farms Development requires one single-server farm per developer, using a set of virtual servers is recommended SharePoint 2010 Farm Design
19. Virtualization All MSS2010 server roles can be virtualized This includes the database role with SQL Server mirroring Clustered SQL Server is not supported on virtual servers The production farms are typically virtualized for all roles but the SQL Server database role The integration test farm is typically virtualized Development single-server farms is recommended as virtual servers Running MSS2010 requires at least 5GB RAM plus resources for Visual Studio and other development tools Using e.g. VirtualBox on local developer machines will require at least 8GB RAM on laptop/desktops SharePoint 2010 Farm Design