Deploying SharePoint 2016: Best Practices for Installing, Configuring, and Maintaining SharePoint Server 2016

© Vlad Catrinescu and Trevor Seward 2016

Vlad Catrinescu and Trevor Seward, Deploying SharePoint 2016, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1999-7_2

2. Designing a Physical Architecture

Vlad Catrinescu¹  and Trevor Seward²

(1)Greenfield Park, Québec, Canada

(2)Sultan, Washington, USA

In this chapter, we will be reviewing physical architectures for SharePoint Server 2016, as well as networking, virtualization, and other farm considerations.

Decisions on architectures are dependent on content size, concurrent user support, overall user count, and of course monetary considerations. While this book will cover a highly available architecture with disaster recovery systems, many architectures remain valid for a variety of use cases and should be designed with your use case ...