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Configuring SQL Server for a successful
SharePoint Server Deployment
Haaron Gonzalez
Solution Architect & Consultant
Microsoft MVP SharePoint Server
http://msmvps.com/haarongonzalez
@haarongonzalez
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Agenda
 SharePoint
 Features
 History
 Server Architecture
 Topologies
 Service Applications
 Requirements
 Recommendations
 Configuration
 Optimizations
 Best Practices
What is
SharePoint?
Share
Organize
Discover
Build
Manage
Share
Connect with employees
across the enterprise use SharePoint to
engage with people,
share ideas and reinvent
the way you work
together
Organize
Whether working as a
team or an individual,
SharePoint helps you
organize information,
people and projects
Organize all your team
communications in
one place
Discover
SharePoint makes it easy
to find answers, discover
insights and connect
with the experts
answers
insights
Build
design using web standards
Developers and web
designers can create new
experiences on
SharePoint using familiar
tools and internet
standards
apps
Manage
SharePoint provides
powerful controls that
allow IT departments to
manage cost, risk and
their time
cost
risk
time
Run SharePoint in the cloud
Deliver new features and updates
faster
Reduce storage footprint
Improve scalability and performance
Server
Architecture
Evolution of Topology
Routing &
Caching
Front-End
More & More Users
< 1,000
<100
10KUsers
Users
Users
More
Workloads
More Workloads
Evaluation
Search
Query
Specialized
Simple
Workload
More
Usage
MoreLight
Very
Resources
And
Simple Workload
Small
Content
Large
< 10M Content
Items
Fault Tolerance
Multiple Index
Partitions
Batch
Processing
Crawl
Database
Advanced Routing
Schematic Diagram:
Machines could be virtual or physical.
Topologies are rough estimates.
A Look at a SharePoint Farm with All
Components
Distributed Cache
Front End Services
Distributed Cache
Front End Services
Distributed Cache
Workflow Manager
Workflow Manager
Workflow Manager
Query Processing
Query Processing
Query Processing
Replica
Replica
Replica
Analytics
Back End Services
Analytics
Crawl
Crawl
Admin
Admin
Content Processing
Content Processing
Availability Group #1
Search
Content
Configuration
Availability Group #2
Service Applications
Content
Availability Group #3
Back End Services
Front End Services
Web and Application Servers: Single
Server Farms
Minimum Hardware Requirements
Processor:
Load balanced
or routed requests
Web tier
Web servers with
query component
64-bit, 4 cores
RAM:
Single server installation – 24GB
WFE or app server in a three-tier farm –
12GB
Hard disk:
80 GB free for system drive
Maintain 2x free space as available RAM
Application tier
Database tier
Application servers with:
Central Administration
Search administration
component
Crawl component
Database server with:
Central Administration
configuration and content
databases
Content databases
Search administration database
Crawl database
Property database
Database Servers
Minimum Hardware Requirements
Processor:
Load balanced
or routed requests
Web tier
64-bit, 4 cores for “small” deployments
64-bit, 8 cores for “medium” deployments
Web servers with
query component
RAM:
8 GB for “small” deployments
16 GB for “medium” deployments
RAM depends on usage models & data size
Application tier
Application servers with:
Central Administration
Search administration
component
Crawl component
Hard disk:
80 GB free for system drive
SP Data Storage dependent on corpus
size, performance requirements, etc.
Database tier
Database server with:
Central Administration
configuration and content
databases
Content databases
Search administration database
Crawl database
Property database
Recommendations
Dedicated SQL Server named instances
 One instance for all the
databases
 Multiple instances for each
type
 Services
 Content
 Search
 Collation
Latin1_General_CI_AS_K
S_WS
Data Directories
 Don’t use C:\ to store
SQL Server data
directories, use other
volumes
 Data root directory
 User database
directory
 User Database log
directory
 Temp DB directory
 Temp DB log directory
Naming convention
 More than 20 databases
to begin with:
 Farm
 Service Applications
 Content
 [ENV]_[Type]_[Name]
Set Max Degree of Parallelism
 Set the max degree of
parallelism option to 1
(MAXDOP)
 Setting the max degree
of parallelism option to
1 may boost
performance and this
setting suppresses
parallel plan generation.
Configure Maximum Memory Settings
 Restrict the amount of
memory SQL Server
can access and to
make sure that the
operating system has
enough memory to
prevent from paging
 The recommended
setting for SQL Server
max server memory
would be the Total
Server Memory – 4 GB
(for Operating
System).
Set database auto grow and initial sizes
settings
 Initial Size - 250 MB / LOG – 125 MB
 Auto growth 250 MB / 50 MB
SQL Alias
 Configure
SharePoint using a
SQL Alias to point to
the actual SQL
Server
SharePoint Install Account
 a.k.a SP_Install or
SP_Admin should
have the following
roles:
 dbcreator
 securityadmin
SPDocKit
 Use SharePoint Documentation Toolkit to generate a Best
Practices Analyzer report and evaluate:
 Data partitions that holds databases should have an allocation
unit size of 64k (in most cases) to get the best performance from
SQL server.
 You should put TempDB on a separate (faster) drive to boost
performance because this database is I/O intensive.
 Logs for your databases shouldn’t be on same drive as the
database files, again for performance reasons.
 MAXDOP must be set to 1 for SharePoint to work normally.
 You should restrict the minimum and maximum memory values
for your SQL server.
 Do not enable auto-create statistics on a SQL instance that hosts
SharePoint databases because is not supported.
 Use reasonable initial settings for your SharePoint databases,
especially the growth value (the default is 5 MB).
Resources
 Best practices for SQL Server in a
SharePoint Server farm
 https://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/hh292622(v=office.15).aspx
Evaluations
Event evaluations
http://www.sqlsaturday.com/449/eventeval.aspx
Session evaluations
http://www.sqlsaturday.com/449/sessions/sessionevaluation.aspx