Large Scale SQL Considerations for SharePoint: Considerations for performance, scale, storage, and high availability

1. Joel Oleson Sr. Product Architect Quest Software http://www.sharepointjoel.com @joeloleson Contributions: Mike Watson, Todd Klindt

4. SharePoint Databases Overview

5. SharePoint Containment Hierarchy

6. Understanding SharePoint Databases

7. Understanding Configuration DB

8. Understanding Content DB

9. Understanding SSP DB - Search

10. Understanding SSP DB

13. Database Disk I/O Demand Most Demand Medium Demand Low Demand * Except during backup and Indexing + Except during Profile Import Temp Master Model Tlogs Search Config +SSP *Content..

16. Scaling SQL 2.5TB SCALE OUT  2.5TB 2.5TB

18. Scaling SQL 2.5TB SCALE UP  2.5TB 2.5TB

20. SQL: Scale Out VS. Scale Up Scale Out Scale Up Advantages Better Performance Easier to Manage Better Flexibility Cheaper Disadvantages More Expensive System Design is Critical Harder to Manage Single Point of Failure

21. Walkthrough: Scale Up VS. Out How to design a 5TB SharePoint SQL Deployment 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB 1TB

25. Highly Available Deployment? Redundant Switches Redundant Web/Application Servers Active/Passive SQL w/ Redundant HBA’s Redundant SAN Fabric RAID 1 Storage Redundant Power Supplies

27. Mirroring Within Farm

29. High Availability Between Farms

31. Combining Solutions

32. SQL 2008 - Do you have Enterprise?

40. Lots of New SharePoint 2010 Databases

41. Large List Throttling Configurable List Throttling And Thresholds You control when and how much! List throttling controls forces end users to create more efficient views with < x number of items.

42. Web Part Performance Dashboards

43. Best Practices Analyzer Health Rules Runs on a Timer Job Create your own! Repair Auto-magically!

44. Logs & Reporting to the DB Extensibility for reporting and possibilities are limitless

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49. Search Disk Performance Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2008/05/19/sql-monitoring-and-i-o.aspx Drive IOPs Read (max) IOPs Write (max) Ratio Read/ Write Latency Read (sec) Latency Write (sec) Search DB Logs 14.67 1,777.29 0.01 0.3060 0.8550 Temp DB 1,110.98 1,492.01 0.74 1.6870 3.5660 Query file group 3,507.26 1,631.96 2.15 3.4360 3.2140 Crawl file group 3,043.93 371.65 8.19 15.0840 15.8720