Understanding Your FAST Search 2010 for SharePoint Application Topology

Understanding Your FAST Search 2010 for SharePoint Application Topology Daniel Webster MCT, MCSE: Security + Internet, MCSA, MCTS: MOSS07 Co-author, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator s Companion Technical Editor, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices Co-author, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator s Pocket Consultant Contributing author, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator s Companion

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Agenda FAST Search 2010 for SharePoint: Two Worlds SharePoint Components Inside FS4SP FAST Components Scaling: Why Would You? Additional Resources

How To For PowerShell scripts see Search Topology Operations in SharePoint Server 2010 at http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/ff696763.aspx For UI instructions see Farm Topology Management at http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/cc262321.aspx

FAST Search Extends SharePoint Server Search Content Search based on FAST ESP Common query and federation APIs FAST Search for SharePoint Common connectors and content APIs SharePoint Server 2010 End Users Content + Unique Social Search Profiles from SharePoint Server 2010 Common IT Pro and developer experience

SharePoint Search Components Administration Component Search Query and Site Settings service Crawl Components Crawl Databases Property Databases Index Partition Query Component(s) Host Distribution Rules

Search Databases & SQL Search requires three databases. Your environment may include multiple Property and Crawl databases. The Search administration database is typically small: allocate 10 GB. To estimate the required storage for your Property and Crawl databases, use the following multipliers: Crawl: 0.046 (sum of content databases) Property: 0.015 (sum of content databases)

Search Databases & SQL The IOPS requirements for Search are significant. For the Crawl database, search requires from 3,500 to 7,000 IOPS. For the Property database, search requires 2,000 IOPS. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801.aspx

SharePoint Search Topology For a recorded presentation on scaling the SharePoint components topology, see https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/887519715

FS4SP Overview (SharePoint) SharePoint Farm Site Collection Administration UI Deployment User Context Management Site / Document Promotion & Demotion Keywords / Synonyms / Best Bets PowerShell Schema Configuration Admin Configuration Deployment Configuration Central Administration UI Property Mapping Property Mapping Spell Checking Reports Custom Search Application FAST Query SSA Query Web Service Federated Object Model Query Object Model FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint FAST Connector SSA SharePoint BDC Exchange Web External Federated Sources People Search Active Directory Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

FAST Components Administration Search Cluster Indexing Indexing Dispatcher Query Processing Query Matching Item Processing Web Analyzer Content Dispatcher

FAST Connectors Web Crawler Database (JDBC) Lotus Notes Connector

FS4SP Content Processing

Network Traffic

Configurable content processing pipeline Transform and process content automatically Strong linguistic coverage 80+ languages detected 45 languages with advanced linguistics features Property Extraction to create new metadata Prebuilt extractors: Person, Location, Company Generic extractors to extend Extensibility The Content Pipeline Processing & refinement REDMOND, Wash., and OSLO, Norway Jan. 8, 2008 Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq MSFT ) today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA (OSE: FAST ), a leading provider of enterprise search solutions, through a cash tender offer for 19.00 Norwegian kroner (NOK) per share. This offer represents a 42 percent premium to the closing share price on Jan. 4, 2008 (the last trading day prior to this announcement)

conceptsearching FAST Integration

SmartLogic FAST Integration

Silver Light Conversion Longitude FAST Integration Longitude Search Content Search Center User Profiles

Deployment.xml: Admin <host name= fastadmin.s7gear.com"> <admin /> <document-processor processes="12" /> <webanalyzer server="true" max-targets="4" linkprocessing="true" lookup-db="true" redundantlookup="false" /> <query /> </host>

Deployment.xml: Application Server <host name= fastapp1.s7gear.com"> <document-processor processes="12"></document-processor> <indexing-dispatcher /> <webanalyzer server="false" max-targets="4" link-processing="true" lookup-db="true" redundant-lookup="true" /> </host>

Deployment.xml: Cluster Member <host name= fastserver01.s7gear.com"> <document-processor processes="16" /> <content-distributor id= 0" /> <indexing-dispatcher /> <searchengine row="0" column= 0" /> </host>

FS4SP Components Admin Role Index / Query Role

FS4SP Search Cluster Components <searchcluster> <row id="0" index="primary" search="false" /> <row id="1" index="secondary" search="false" /> <row id="2" index="none" search="true" /> <row id="3" index="none" search="true" /> </searchcluster>

Scaling for Availability (SharePoint) Load Balanced Crawl Targets Create Multiple Crawl Components per Database Across Multiple Servers Create Multiple Query Components Across Multiple Servers Mirror or Cluster SQL Servers

Scaling for Crawling Add Crawl Databases Add SQL Servers Use Host Distribution Rules Add Crawling Components & Servers Add Dedicated Crawl Targets

Scaling for Query Performance Partition the Index Add Query Components & Servers

Scaling Document Processing Add DocProcessors (automatic load balancing) To Cluster Members To Dedicated Application Servers Add Web Analyzers To Cluster Members To Dedicated Application Servers Add Content Dispatchers

Scaling Indexing Add Columns to increase Indexing capacity Add Indexer Rows to increase Recoverability Add Indexing Dispatchers (Can be outside cluster.)

Scaling Query Matching Add Query Matching Rows To Increase Availability and Performance Add Query Processing Components (Can be outside cluster.)

Scaled Out Farm MOSS Farm Dedicated Targets TK5-FSTCRL-01 TK5-FSTCRL-02 FS14 Crawl 1 FS14 Crawl 2 Central Admin Using SQL Cluster 1 Using SQL cluster1 TK5-FSTCRL-03 People Query 1 People Crawl Component 1 Using SQL Cluster 2 TK5-FSTCRL-04 People Query 2 People Crawl Component 2 Using SQL Cluster 2 Heading FAST Search Farm Heading Heading TK5-FSTCRL-05 Admin ConfigServer Spelltuner SamAdmin Using SQL Cluster 2 TK5-FSTCRL-06 QRServer WA Admin WA Worker WA Lookup DB TK5-FSTCRL-07 QRServer WA Worker WA Lookup DB TK5-FSTCRL-08 QRServer WA Worker WA Lookup DB TK5-FSTCRL-09 TK5-FSTCRL-10 Content Distributor 1 Content Distributor 2 Indexing dispatcher 1 Indexing Dispatcher 2 6 Docproc 6 Docproc (Enterprise crawler) (Enterprise crawler) TK5-FSTIDX-01 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-03 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-05 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-07 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-09 FAST09-017 TK5-FSTIDX-11 WFE #2 4 Docproc 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-13 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-15 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-17 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-19 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-21 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-23 4 Docproc TK5-FSTIDX-02 TK5-FSTIDX-04 TK5-FSTIDX-06 TK5-FSTIDX-08 TK5-FSTIDX-10 TK5-FSTIDX-12 TK5-FSTIDX-14 TK5-FSTIDX-16 TK5-FSTIDX-18 TK5-FSTIDX-20 TK5-FSTIDX-22 TK5-FSTIDX-24

Additional Resources: Online Manage search topology (http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/ee805956(office.14).aspx) Technical diagrams (http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/cc263199(office.14).aspx) Search cmdlets (http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/ee906563(office.14).aspx)

Additional Resources: Books Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator s Pocket Consultant Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator s Companion Professional Microsoft Search Working with FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

Free Online Training http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/enterprisesearch/ff961003.aspx

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Daniel Webster Fill out surveys for big prizes SCAN QR CODES daniel.webster@summit7systems.com @wdwebster http://www.linkedin.com/in/wdanielwebster http://summit7systems.com/blogs/danielwebster MCT, MCSE: Security + Internet, MCSA,, MCITP & MCTS: SharePoint 2010 Co-author, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator s Companion Technical Editor, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices Co-author, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator s Pocket Consultant Contributing author, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator s Companion