Chapter 3: Architecture and Capacity Planning
What’s In This Chapter?
- SharePoint products and licenses
- Critical non-SharePoint servers
- Hardware specifications
- Tools for controlling your deployment
SharePoint 2010 has greatly expanded its functionality from previous versions. New features include the following:
- Office web applications, where you can display and edit Office documents in the browser
- The Fluent UI, aka the Ribbon
- An enhanced social experience, including tagging and notes
- More flexibility regarding how web applications consume services through service applications
- A full-scale business intelligence offering through tools such as Performance Point Services, Reporting Services, and Excel Services
Those and about a million (not an exact number) other new features in SharePoint 2010 are reasons why people are so excited about the product. Of course, all of that new functionality means that users will deploy SharePoint for more tasks than ever before — and that increased traffic leads to more demands from a hardware perspective. As a result, administrators can anticipate a strong increase in the number and size of servers in their farms. In short, it is expected that the same user from SharePoint 2007 will come to a SharePoint 2010 farm with more requests per second (RPS).
To help you scale, the Shared Services Provider (SSP) from 2007 has gone the way of the Dodo bird. In its place, Microsoft has introduced a new services architecture that is infinitely more configurable, ...
