October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
46h 16m
English
Third in line for virtualization is the SharePoint server or servers that hold the search role (otherwise known as the search server), which provides SharePoint’s indexing and querying functionality. SharePoint 2010 doesn’t have the same single-index restrictions that SharePoint 2007 did, which makes this role more scalable and allows for more distributed deployment models.
The typical virtualized search server consists of a VM with four virtual processors and 8GB of RAM allocated to it (see Table 12.1), assuming that SharePoint 2010’s out-of-box search functionality is being used. If FAST Search Server 2010 is used, the RAM requirements will be in the 12GB to 16GB range. Like the application server numbers, ...
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