
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a
SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution
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SharePoint farm configuration
The SharePoint 2010 farm configuration, as shown in Figure 2 above, included two Web Front-End
(WFE), two Application Servers (APP), and two database servers in a failover cluster. The application
servers in the farm were used to host the search query and crawler roles. The farm servers at all tiers
used teamed network connections to provide load balancing and failover capabilities.
Table 5 (below) lists the operating system and software editions used in the farm configurations.
Table 5 OS and software editions
WFE and application servers
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Data Center Edition
SharePoint Server 2010 Standard
Edition
SQL Server 2008 R2 x64 Standard
Edition
NOTE: Step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring a SharePoint farm and any service
applications used in this performance study are outside the scope of this paper. For more information
and resources, refer to the References section of this paper.
The following table shows the configuration of the virtual machines used in this reference architecture.
Table 6 Virtual Machine (VM) configuration
OS Fixed VHD
stored on iSCSI
volume
APP: Search
query Index on
iSCSI volume
WFE: 2x virtual
networks for farm
network and NLB
cluster
APP: 1x virtual
networks for farm
network and 2x
virtual network for
in-guest iSCSI
initiators
SQL Server DB
(Failover
Cluster) VMs
OS Fixed VHD
stored on iSCSI
volume
4 LUNs for SQL
Cluster DB using
in-guest iSCSI
initiators
1x virtual network
for farm network
1x virtual network
for SQL cluster
network
2x virtual network
for in-guest iSCSI
As a part of the farm deployment, EqualLogic HIT Kit was installed in the application and database
virtual machines and the EqualLogic DSM for iSCSI MPIO was enabled. The default Multi-Pathing I/O
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