From Zero to Hero: A Real World Guide to Building High Availability SharePoint Farms
Download as PPTX, PDF0 likes721 views
The document serves as a comprehensive guide for building high availability SharePoint farms, addressing key concepts such as eliminating single points of failure, implementing fully redundant systems, and ensuring operational stability. It outlines various components including Windows Server, SQL Server, and the architecture of SharePoint servers, detailing best practices for configuration, synchronization, and database management. Additionally, it highlights challenges related to costs and complexity, and offers guidance on ensuring compliance and performance.
From Zero to Hero: A Real World Guide to Building High Availability SharePoint Farms
- 1. A Real World Guide to Building High Availability SharePoint Farms
- 2. Sponsored by: Visit us on the web at www.binarywave.com
- 3. @eshupps sharepointcowboywww.sharepointcowboy.com slideshare.net/eshupps linkedin.com/in/eshupps Eric Shupps SharePoint Server MVP
- 4. Agenda
- 5. Fundamentals
- 6. Elimination of single points of failure Fully redundant systems Seamless continuity Automated failover Operational Stability
- 7. Risk mitigation Compliance Customer Satisfaction Revenue Protection Safety Performance Security Public Relations
- 8. Infrastructure Devices Servers Bandwidth Storage Software Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 Failover Clustering File Shares SQL Server 2012/2014 Always On Availability Groups
- 10. Architecture
- 11. WFE SharePoint Server 2013 Front-end Server SQL Server 2012 SP2 (2014) PowerPivot Add-In SQL Server 2012 SP2 (2014) Reporting Services Add-In APP SharePoint Server 2013 Application Server Excel Services Service Application SQL Server 2012 SP2 (2014) PowerPivot Service Application SQL Server 2012 SP2 (2014) PowerPivot Add-In SQL Server 2012 SP2 (2014) Reporting Services Service Application SQL Server 2012 SP2 (2014) Reporting Services Add-In WAC Office Web Apps 2013 Server SQL SQL Server 2012 SP2+ (2014) Database Engine All Databases and Roles SQL Server Analysis Services for SharePoint (PowerPivot) WFM Workflow Manager Server
- 12. JUST SharePoint Is everything on this diagram ‘highly available’? What about environment? Virtual Host A Virtual Host B SQL Server installed and configured to support SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups. WFE01 SharePoint 2013 Front-end Server APP01 SharePoint 2013 Application Server SQL01 SQL Server 2012 SP1+ All Databases and Roles WFE02 SharePoint 2013 Front-end Server APP02 SharePoint 2013 Application Server SQL02 SQL Server 2012 SP1+ All Databases and Roles F5 BigIP Network Load Balancer WFM01 Workflow Manager Server WFM03 Workflow Manager Server WFM02 Workflow Manager Server wfm.<domain>.com WSFC01 SQLAGL01 WAC01 Office Web Apps 2013 Server WAC02 Office Web Apps 2013 Server wac.<domain>.com
- 13. Architecture
- 16. Dedicated vs. Shared Storage Quorum Types Node Majority Node and File Share Majority Node and Disk Majority Disk Only Witnesses Disk File Share
- 17. Logins Service Accounts SQL Accounts Computer Objects File shares Cluster permissions Read all properties Create computer objects
- 19. Encryption Communication (SSL) Data (TDE) Certificate Types SAN Wildcard Challenges Cost Complexity Configuration
- 20. Windows Server Failover Clustering Required Provides base cluster capabilities Server level SQL Failover Cluster Instance Optional Instance level No automatic failover w/ Availability Groups
- 23. Database Name Sync Async User Profile Application Yes Yes User Profile Sync Yes No User Profile Social Yes Yes Word Automation Yes Yes Managed Metadata Yes Yes Translation Yes Yes BDC Yes Yes Project Server Yes Yes PowerPivot Yes Yes PerformancePoint Yes Yes Database Name Sync Async Config Yes No Central Admin Yes No Content Yes Yes App Management Yes Yes Search Admin Yes No Search Analytics Yes No Search Crawl Yes No State Service Yes No Secure Store Yes Yes Usage and Health Yes* No https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj841106(v=office.15).aspx * Remove prior to running PSCONFIG
- 24. Async replication NOT supported Risk of deltas between on- disk indexes and databases is HIGH Sync Replication Challenges Administration Site-level configuration Analytics Database size Crawl/Re-Indexing time
- 25. Full database replication possible but can be problematic Synchronization is best done “live” Options Backup and restore Reprovision User Profile Service Application Profile DB Sync DB User Profile Synchronization Service Active Directory Profile DB Sync DB Forefront Identity Manager FIM FIM Sync
- 26. Independent cache with no DB persistence Configurable memory allocation Max 16GB per server Max 32GB per farm Dedicated mode recommended for High Availability HA possible in collocated mode with sufficient hardware resources Cache Dependencies Feeds Content Search Web Part Login Tokens Access Cache Security Trimming App Tokens View State OneNote Throttling
- 28. Leverages “Contained Databases” feature of SQL 2012 Requires changes to SQL Server protocols, settings and authentication mode HA requires Contained Database Authentication Access DB’s are NOT automatically added to availability groups
- 29. SSAS Can be configured for read- only replicas SSRS Requires .NET 3.5 hotfix KB2654347 No automatic failover PowerPivot Not yet tested for Sync or Async commit operations
- 30. Implementation
- 31. Group of databases organized into PRIMARY (1) and SECONDARY (4 – 2012, 8 – 2014) Automatic data synchronization Synchronous and Asynchronous modes Optional read-only replicas Database-only redundancy Listeners (Virtual Network Names)
- 32. Provide flexibility and abstraction Best practice HA aliases target AG Listeners NOT servers or instances Use multiple listeners for scalability
- 33. Windows Server Failover Cluster File Share Quorom Disk Witness Quorom Failover Cluster Instances Shared storage between cluster members Storage “owned” by active member Availability Groups Discrete storage for each replica
- 34. Windows Server Failover Cluster File Share quorum Disk witness quorum Failover Cluster Instances Shared storage between cluster members Storage “owned” by active member Availability Groups Discrete storage for each replica
- 35. SQL overhead ALWAYS impacts performance Ensure adequate bandwidth for database replication Secondary infrastructure does not have to match primary Beware reduced performance Plan for rapid scale-out Async faster than sync Possible data loss
- 37. Sponsored by: Visit us on the web at www.binarywave.com