Share point disaster avoidance architecture for large scale enterprises
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The document outlines a comprehensive approach to disaster avoidance architecture specific to SharePoint in large-scale enterprises. It emphasizes the importance of business continuity planning, establishing recovery strategies, and test validation to ensure system integrity and minimize downtime. Additionally, it discusses the architectural components, performance considerations, and infrastructure design needed to optimize SharePoint performance while preventing potential disasters.
Share point disaster avoidance architecture for large scale enterprises
- 1. SharePoint Disaster Avoidance Architecture for Large Scale Enterprises Cornelius J. van Dyk Jason Himmelstein Crayveon Corporation Sentri c@crayveon.com jhimmelstein@sentri.com @cjvandyk @sharepointlhorn
- 2. • Chief Architect, Crayveon Corporation • 7 time MVP, MCITP, MCTS • Blog: www.cjvandyk.com/blog • Twitter: @cjvandyk • LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cjvandyk
- 3. • SharePoint Practice Director, Sentri Inc. • MCITP, MCTS SharePoint 2010 • Microsoft vTSP ● virtual Technology Solutions Professional • SharePoint Foundation Logger (http://spflogger.codeplex.com) • Web: www.sentri.com • Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com • Twitter: @sharepointlhorn • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein
- 4. Why do we do this? Jason’s Family Cornelius’ Family
- 5. GET TO KNOW YOU • Name • Company • What you do with SharePoint • Something interesting about yourself
- 6. DISASTER • Outage vs Disaster • When is a disaster actually a disaster? • Traditional disaster planning
- 7. DISCUSSION GROUP BREAKOUT • What is disaster planning to you? • In the context of SharePoint • Critical points
- 8. BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING • Business continuity planning identifies an organization's exposure to internal and external threats and synthesizes hard and soft assets to provide effective prevention and recovery for the organization, whilst maintaining competitive advantage and system integrity. • Components ● Planning ● Testing ● Validation
- 9. STRATEGIES • Recovery Point Objective (RPO) • Recovery Time Objective (RTO) • Tolerance for down time
- 10. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Executive Management Commitment ● This costs money ● Must invest to protect ● Think of Insurance
- 11. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Planning Committee ● All business units represented ● One person to lead – think Chief Justice ● Responsibility ● Authority
- 12. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Risk Assessment ● Business Impact Analysis • Natural Disasters • Technical Disasters • Human threats • Terrorism
- 13. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Determine SLA ● SLA for corporate users ● SLA for internal customers ● SLA for partner companies ● SLA for public
- 14. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Establish Priorities for Recovery ● Critical Operations ● Key Personnel ● Vital Systems ● Documentation/Records/Policies & Procedures
- 15. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Determine Recovery Strategies ● Facilities • Destroyed • Impaired ● Hardware • Servers – replacement availability • Network – service providers
- 16. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Determine Recovery Strategies ● Software • Install ISOs • Updates ● Communications • Inter-company • Partners & Public
- 17. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Determine Recovery Strategies ● Data • Backups • Availability ● Company Services ● Customer Services
- 18. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Determine Recovery Strategies ● Distributed architecture • Hot Site • Warm Site • Cold Site
- 19. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Determine Recovery Strategies ● Vendor Agreements • Circumstances constituting an emergency • Contract Duration • Termination Conditions • Cost • Testing
- 20. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Determine Recovery Strategies ● Vendor Agreements (cont.) • Security procedures • System change notifications • Hours of operation • Hardware requirements • Personnel requirements
- 21. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Determine Recovery Strategies ● Vendor Agreements (cont.) • Compatibility guarantee • Availability guarantee • Priorities with other customers
- 22. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Perform Data Collection ● Critical phone numbers ● Hardware inventory • Vendor contact and equipment information ● Software inventory ● Notification checklist
- 23. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Organize & Document a Written Plan ● Plan should follow a checklist ● Think rebuild from scratch • Notifications • Hardware • Software • Restore backups
- 24. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Organize & Document a Written Plan (cont.) ● Think rebuild from scratch (cont.) • Re-establish systems • Test & Validate • Communicate • After Action Review
- 25. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Develop Testing Criteria & Procedures • Test the plan • Test the plan again • Approve the plan
- 26. DISASTER PLANNING STEPS • Ongoing plan validation ● Annual testing ● Scenario testing ● Testing when something changes
- 27. TRADITIONAL DISASTER PLANNING • Backups • Log Shipping • SQL Replication • Hot Site
- 28. SHAREPOINT ARCHITECTURE • Farm configuration • 2 WFE, 2 APP, SQL Cluster • The role of virtualization
- 29. RECOVERY vs AVOIDANCE • What is Disaster Avoidance? • A new way of looking at DR • Why another DR strategy? • What makes SPDAALSE different?
- 30. CAUSES OF DISASTERS • Natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, storms etc. • Human induced such as accidents, acts of terrorism etc. • Hardware failures such as drive crashes, memory or board failures etc.
- 31. CAUSES OF DISASTERS (cont) • Malware such as worms, viruses etc. • The one everyone forgets about… • Software incompatibility when upgrading: ● Operating systems ● Software service pack ● Software patches
- 32. SHAREPOINT CUMULATIVE UPDATES • Bi-monthly • Recommended by support • History of hot fixes and re-releases • Famously broke User Profile Services
- 33. CUs A NECCESARY EVIL • Why apply them at all? • What’s their risk? • Can’t we just uninstall them? • Compared to Exchange…
- 34. HOW DOES SPDAALSE HELP? • Farm Architecture • SharePoint databases • Difference between data and configuration • What makes Large Scale Enterprises different?
- 37. THINKING DIFFERENT • Separation of data and configuration • Performance considerations • Adding virtualization
- 38. IN ACTION • Building the farm based on SPDAALSE • Preparing the farm for testing • Snapping the farm • Backups
- 39. IN ACTION (cont) • Patching the farm • Testing the patch • Rolling back • Validating rollback
- 40. IN ACTION (cont) • Demo
- 41. Agenda • Infrastructure Design ● Analyze Customer Requirements ● Hardware requirements ● Server configuration ● Network recommendations ● Virtual vs. Physical • SQL Server Performance ● Pre-grow vs. Auto-growth ● IO requirements ● Sizing recommendations ● Database Isolation • SharePoint Server Performance ● Tier isolation vs. Location Proximity Requirements ● Load balancing your App Tier ● Load testing in your environment ● Governance & Troubleshooting
- 42. Infrastructure Design • Analyze Customer Requirements ● High Availability ● Disaster Recovery ● Budget Constraints ● Location Awareness ● Number of Concurrent Users
- 43. Infrastructure Design • Hardware requirements ● Web servers & Application servers Developer or Evaluation environments Production in Single Server or farm CPU: 4 cores, 64-bit required environments RAM: 4GB CPU: 4 cores, 64-bit required Hard Drive space: 80GB RAM: 8GB Hard Drive space: 80GB ● SQL servers Small Farm Medium Farm Large Farm CPU: 4 cores, 64-bit required CPU: 8 cores, 64-bit required Up to 2TB Content DBS RAM: 8GB RAM: 16GB RAM: 32 GB Hard Drive space: 80GB Hard Drive space: 80GB From 2TB to 5TB Content DBS RAM: 64 GB • What constitutes a small/medium/large farm?
- 44. Infrastructure Design • Server configuration – Small Farm
- 45. Infrastructure Design • Server configuration – Scaled Farm
- 47. Infrastructure Design • Network recommendations ● Traffic Isolation • Web • Database • Search • Service Applications • Authentication ● Number of NICs per server ● Limit the number of hops ● Colocation of servers
- 48. Infrastructure Design • Physical ● Benefits • No virtualization overhead • Ability to target DBs to separate physical spindles • Only OS limits on Hardware • Simple Networking ● Drawbacks • Backup & recovery time • Limited snapshot ability • Costly & lacking Centralized Management • Failover limitations
- 49. Infrastructure Design • Virtualization ● Benefits • Snapshot capability • Rapid system deployment • HADR ability • Centralized Management ● Drawbacks • Loss of minimum 8% compute for overhead • Limitations on addressing full hardware • Disks are stored as single/multi-file • Centralized Networking
- 50. SQL Server Performance • Pre-grow databases ● Requires more space initially ● Dramatic increase in performance ● Databases like contiguous space • Auto-growth ● Immediately change from 1m increments ● Do not use “Grow by %” setting ● 50-100m maximum growth per required ● Schedule maintenance task to check size & grow in off peak hours as required
- 51. SQL Server Performance • IO requirements DB Files RAID Level Optimization 1 TempDB data 10 Write 2 TempDB logs 10 Write 3 ContentDB data 10 ReadWrite 4 ContentDB logs 10 Write 5 Crawl DB logs 10 Write 6 Crawl DB data 10 ReadWrite 7 Property DB logs 10 Write 8 Property DB data 10 Write 9 Services DB logs 10 Write 10 Services DB data 5/10 ReadWrite 11 Archive Content DB 5 Read 12 Publishing Site Content DB 5 Read
- 52. SQL Server Performance • Sizing recommendations ● Recommended limit for ContentDBs: 200G • Maximum supported: 4TB – Includes Remote BLOBs ● Backup/Restore timing ● Simple vs. Full recovery mode
- 53. SQL Server Performance • Database Instance Isolation ● Secure Store Database ● SharePoint core databases ● Content Databases ● Search ● Highly Transactional non-SharePoint DBs • Drawback ● Lose the central management in a single SQL Server Management Studio window
- 54. SharePoint Server Performance • Tier isolation vs. Location Proximity Requirements ● Separation via vLAN • Less chatter • Increased hop count ● Collocating SharePoint in a single vLAN • Increased chatter • Lower hop count • Key take away ● Know your network, determine your topology based upon traffic & requirements
- 55. SharePoint Server Performance • Load balancing your App Tier ● Know your load ● Scale based upon need, not perception • Find your choke point, then release the grasp ● Don’t assume, validate!
- 56. SharePoint Server Performance • Load testing in your environment ● Example • 2 Web Servers (4cores, 16GB RAM) using NLB • 1 App Server (4cores, 16 GB RAM) • 1 SQL Server Instance (16cores, 128GB RAM) • Simple CRUD operations – Login, create list item, open item, modify item, save item, delete item, log out
- 57. SharePoint Server Performance • Load testing in your environment ● Results • Farm was completely non-responsive at ~500 concurrent users ● Root cause • Watching this test on the server side we found that we were immediately CPU bound. ● Conclusion • Add CPUs or Web Servers to the farm to handle additional load
- 58. References • Jason’s Blog Sentri, Inc SharePoint Foundation Logger http://www.sharepointlonghorn.com http://www.sentri.com http://spflogger.codeplex.com • My Article on SharePoint Pro http://www.sharepointpromag.com/content1/topic/sharepoint-performance-troubleshooting-141506/catpath/sharepoint-server-2010 • Cornelius J. van Dyk’s Blog http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog • Eric Shupps’s Blog http://www.sharepointcowboy.com • SharePoint Server 2010 Hardware and software requirements http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx • SharePoint Server 2010 Capacity Management: Software Boundaries and Limits http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx • Capacity Management and Sizing Overview for SharePoint Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758647.aspx • Capacity Planning for SharePoint Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758645.aspx • Performance Testing for SharePoint Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758659.aspx • Storage and SQL Server Capacity Planning and Configuration http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801.aspx • Performance and Capacity Technical Case Studies http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261716.aspx • Monitoring and Maintaining SharePoint Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758658.aspx • Performance Testing for SharePoint Server 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758659.aspx • The Load Testing Kit for Visual Studio Team System http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff823731.aspx • Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) http://www.iis.net/community/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1466
- 59. REFERENCES • @cjvandyk @sharepointlhorn • www.cjvandyk.com/blog www.sharepointlonghorn.com • Deck download http://aurl.to/SPDAALSE • Painless deck http://aurl.to/Painless • Logging deck http://aurl.to/logging • PowerPivot deck http://aurl.to/HMPP • Versions List http://aurl.to/v • Corne’s Utils http://quix.codeplex.com
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