1) Dell implemented a centralized SharePoint 2007 infrastructure on Dell PowerEdge servers and EMC storage to replace over 300 decentralized SharePoint 2003 instances.
2) The new system provides improved collaboration, availability, disaster recovery, and lowers costs through standardization and central management.
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represents a viable scale-up alternative to the current vogue for racks filled with blades, looking in particular
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2007 Dell On Sharepoint
1. Dell on Dell SharePoint Server 2007
backup/recovery/archiving n
clustering n
consolidation n
database n
management/utilities n
messaging n
virtualiZation n
On-Point IT
CHALLENGE
The need to collaborate more effectively led
business units within Dell to deploy their
own instances of the Microsoft® Office
SharePoint® Server, resulting in a decentralized Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployed
infrastructure that contributed to higher
on Dell PowerEdge servers helps improve knowledge
costs and imperiled important business data
sharing and collaboration
SOLUTION
A
Dell Services and Dell IT upgraded to cen-
t a large, global enterprise like Dell, collaboration represents not only a vital business asset
trally managed Microsoft Office SharePoint
but also an absolute strategic necessity. Employees need to work together and with partners
Server 2007 collaboration software deployed
and customers across business units, offices, and geographies. Tools that support effective
on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers running the
sharing of resources and knowledge offer the potential for immense operational efficiencies.
Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 Enterprise
In the past, Dell employees relied on traditional means of collaboration. “A lot of collaboration
Edition operating system; to handle data
at Dell has been centered around e-mail, public folders, and file servers,” says Thomas Sparks, Dell IT
access and storage, Dell IT deployed Microsoft
collaboration program manager. “Typically, somebody would start a folder on a file server, and every-
SQL Server on Dell PowerEdge servers,
one just started sticking documents there. Often, there was little rhyme or reason to where files were
as well as an EMC® Symmetrix® SAN and
put or how they were named. Needless to say, this made it difficult to find and access information and
EMC® Legato® NetWorker® SharePoint
led to numerous versioning problems.”
Portal Server Client Connection software
In order to foster more effective knowledge sharing, many individual business units within Dell
opted to deploy collaboration centers built around Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
BENEFIT
“There were more than 300 individual instances of SharePoint that had been set up by business groups
The new collaboration tool set provided
within Dell,” explains Keith Fafel, practice lead for SharePoint in Dell Services. “At Dell, SharePoint
by SharePoint 2007 helps employees
2003 was used for group calendaring, document sharing, maintaining contact lists, publishing meeting
share knowledge and work together on
notes, and more—a myriad of collaboration needs.”
projects more productively; the centralized
SharePoint infrastructure contributes to
higher availability, better disaster recovery,
and a lower cost of ownership, as well as
better security and easier compliance with
regulatory requirements
2. Despite the fact that SharePoint had become a vital business system, solution will enable business units to focus on managing the business
the individual business groups were expected to deploy and maintain their without having to worry about the underlying technology.”
own instances. “SharePoint 2003 was not centrally managed, and there In fact, the new centralized collaboration tool set will be extended
was little in the way of operational procedures governing its use,” recalls outside the enterprise to help Dell teams work more effectively with external
Fafel. “Critical business data was housed on the SharePoint servers, but customers. “For instance, for our Platinum Plus Enterprise Support program,
because the data wasn’t centrally managed, it was not necessarily backed up, Dell customer service representatives need to exchange voluminous
and there was little, if any, redundancy. That posed a business risk because information with customers,” Fafel explains. “Often they need to exchange
those systems are critical to the units that rely on them.” large files or reports, and e-mail isn’t really able to handle the size of the
In the end, the decentralized SharePoint deployments resulted in an file transfers. As part of the new collaboration tool set, we’re building a
unnecessary waste of organizational resources. “Across the company, way to give customers the ability to upload data, so our support techni-
many teams worked independently to solve similar problems, which cians can view it and provide more timely information to our customers.”
resulted in a lot of redundant effort,” claims Andrew Gore, Dell Professional
Services senior SharePoint architect. “Best practices were not being Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell|EMC storage support
followed and the support process was disjointed, as each team owned its SharePoint
own SharePoint environment.” In order to support the SharePoint deployment—and provide for easy
scalability as it grows—Dell decided to host the SharePoint application
Dell implements a centralized collaboration tool set architecture on Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers running the Microsoft
In order to improve knowledge sharing, Dell recently resolved to build a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition operating system. “Dell really sup-
new, centralized collaboration platform. “The scope of this project means ports the scale-out mentality that we are seeking,” reports Sparks. “The
that it affects every Dell employee,” explains Marcus Brakewood, Dell IT architecture we’re designing is very expandable horizontally, so we can
engineering project manager. “In fact, we’re not just setting up a whole continue to grow by adding on one or two servers based upon our needs.”
new infrastructure, we’re also developing the operational and use model In addition to SharePoint, Dell IT plans to deploy Microsoft SQL Server
for all Dell employees. The idea behind the project is to deploy an 2005 on Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers to support the data access and avail-
enterprise-wide, IT-managed SharePoint infrastructure that can address ability needs of the new collaboration platform. “In the initial implemen-
both internal and external customer needs.” tation, we plan to have 16 SQL instances, but it will also be very easy
As part of the project, Dell is upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint 2007. to grow,” Sparks explains. “Our engineers are really excited about using
“We’re looking forward to bringing in the new feature set available in the database mirroring capabilities of SQL Server 2005. Our primary data
SharePoint 2007,” says Fafel. “The collaboration tools in SharePoint centers are located 10 kilometers apart in an active/active configuration.
2007 are much richer. Plus, SharePoint 2007 promotes a tightly integrated Our database administrators claim that the failover from the primary
experience with user desktops and other Microsoft applications. In the end, site to the mirror should actually take place faster than with a failover in
we hope to make the SharePoint experience a little like The Matrix—it will Microsoft® Cluster Service.”
be practically everywhere and integrated with almost everything.” Ultimately, mirroring offers both the benefits of high availability and
According to the IT team at Dell, a centralized SharePoint infrastruc- low data loss. “With database mirroring, the transaction log records are
ture will help address many of the internal collaboration needs at Dell. “In sent directly from a principal database to a mirror database every time
the past, we didn’t have an enterprise-wide platform to help the different the principal transaction log buffer is written to disk, and this technique
business segments collaborate, so they went out and created their own keeps the mirror database nearly-up-to-date with the principal—with no
SharePoint instances,” Brakewood explains. “With a centralized system loss of committed data,” Sparks explains. “If the principal fails, the mirror
built around SharePoint 2007, we’re really hoping to further team server may become a new principal and recover its database. With the
collaboration. SharePoint gives us easily customizable team spaces where release of Service Pack 1 in April 2006, database mirroring became a
people can share documents, tasks, calendars, and blogs. It also integrates technology that delivers high-availability and high-performance solutions
with Microsoft® Office. Plus, it has project management features that for database redundancy.”
allow you to manipulate timelines and access project scorecards.” Plus, SQL Server 2005 offers a number of other attractive features.
Microsoft SharePoint 2007 will also deliver a wide range of much “SQL Server analysis services provide vital metrics on the SharePoint
needed collaboration functionality to partners and customers. “Microsoft environment,” says Sparks. “SQL Server 2005 also supports online
SharePoint 2007 will enable Dell teams to collaborate more easily with ‘creation of index’ and ‘rebuilding of index’—two features that really
external customers and partners, wherever they happen to be located,” make life easier for administrators, especially when they are expecting
explains Anu Mehta, Dell Professional Services project manager. “Dell will database sizes between 80 GB to 200 GB for a SharePoint site. Plus, the
have the ability to create project-based collaboration sites to share SQL Server 2005 buffer manager supports hot-add memory, which allows
documents, project plans, and status reports. Plus, a Dell IT-supported users to add physical memory without restarting the server.”