Dell Reference Architecture for a Virtualized SharePoint 2010 Document Management Solution User Guide
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This technical white paper provides comprehensive documentation for the Dell EqualLogic. The document covers configuration instructions. This documentation is intended for storage administrators and IT professionals, server administrators and data center operators. The manual provides detailed guidance to ensure proper operation and maintenance of the Dell EqualLogic. Users will find step-by-step instructions and technical details necessary for effective utilization of the product.
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Dell Equal Logic Best Practices Series
Reference Architecture for a Virtualized Share Point 2010 Document Management Solution A Dell Technical White Paper
Storage Infrastructure and Solutions Engineering Dell Product Group June 2012
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Dell Equal Logic Best Practices Series Reference Architecture for a Virtualized Share Point 2010 Document Management Solution A Dell Technical White Paper Storage Infrastructure and Solutions Engineer...
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THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ...
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Table of Contents Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................................................................
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Acknowledgements This whitepaper was produced by the PG Storage Infrastructure and Solutions of Dell Inc. The team that created this whitepaper: Scott Schindler, Suresh Jasrasaria, and Camille Daily W...
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Executive summary Microsoft® Share Point® 2010 is a flexible and powerful document management and business collaboration application. Due to its breadth of features, configuring a Share Point 2010 sol...
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1 Introduction Share Point 2010 is a feature rich document management and business collaboration application which requires the deployment and configuration of numerous hardware and software systems. ...
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the consideration of storage array scaling or to a tiering solution with a secondary array system and faster drives for data that is commonly accessed. See the appendix for scaling results of an Equal...
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2 Test methodology In order to simulate 500 concurrent Share Point users, Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Ultimate along with the distributed test functionality of Visual Studio test controller and tes...
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• Five second ‘think times’ between user tests, simulating time between clicks for users • Three hour test duration • Constant 500 total users • No warm-up • Visual Studio web test connection model – ...
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Intranet, 100GB: http://intranet.sis.local – user home page IT, 800GB: http://intranet.sis.local/sites/it – IT document library Management, 800GB: http ://intranet.sis.local/sites/sales – Management d...
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3 Test configuration Figure 1 Share Point 2010 – Visual Studio 2010 test environment diagram Test Environment Components: • Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Power Edge R710 • Visual Studio SQL Server, Vir...
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Figure 2 Share Point 2010 Farm – storage connectivity BP1029 Reference Architecture for a Virtualized Share Point 2010 Document Management Solution 11
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3.1 Share Point farm virtual machines Memor Host Name Function v CPUs R610 #1 AD Active Directory, DNS 1 4GB R610 #1 EQLMan EQL Manager console and SAN HQ 1 4GB R610 #1 v Center Vmware v Center 1 4GB ...
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Web1 R610 #2 Microsoft Share Point Foundation Web Application Managed metadata web service Search query and site settings service (index + index mirror) Web2 R610 #3 Microsoft Share Point Foundation W...
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Equal Logic Host Integration version 4.0 Tools (HIT) 3.7 Equal Logic HIT configuration The Equal Logic HIT MPIO component provides for architecture aware i SCSI Multipath I/O (MPIO) connectivity betwe...
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4 Test results The results in the tables below reveal the performance results of simulating 500 concurrent users with the two workloads described in section 2 above. The first workload simulates an en...
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Figure 3 workload one: Heavy upload environment – I/O Live View session Notice that the heavy upload workload consists of nearly 70% writes, yet read latency is higher. The reason for this is that hos...
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Figure 4 workload two: Heavy browse environment – I/O Live View session The more read intensive heavy browse workload reveals an interesting anamoly where writes are a common occurrence, particularly ...
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5 Conclusion From the tests and data analysis in this white paper it can be concluded that: • A single Equal Logic PS6100E array can easily and effectively support a virtualized Share Point 2010 mediu...
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6 Best Practices • Establish a performance baseline after configuring your primary Share Point 2010 feature set. Then you will be able to see how much each additional feature or group of users you add...
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7 Appendix In order to provide valuable scaling performance results for the workloads above, the entire web farm, except the cloned data, was migrated to an Equal Logic PS6100X 10k SAS array. This arr...
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Table 4 Workload 2: heavy browse environment with 10k SAS disks Heavy browse environment with 24 SAS Disks Concurrent users tested 1000 Storage IOPs at 1000 users 1774 Write latency 2.4ms Read latency...
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Additional resources Support.dell.com is focused on meeting your needs with proven services and support. Dell Tech Center.com is an IT Community where you can connect with Dell Customers and Dell empl...
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THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.
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| Published | June 16, 2026 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
How are the test servers configured?
The test uses SharePoint farm virtual machines, network switches, and EqualLogic servers to create the test configuration.
What are the CPU usage results?
Web servers and search query servers use less than 2% CPU, while SQL servers reach 37% to 64.7% CPU.
What are the recommended resources for further reading?
Refer to DellTechCenter.com for community support and the referenced Dell publications for configuration guides and sizing guidelines.
What are the latency results for the heavy upload workload?
The heavy upload environment results in a write latency of 2.4ms and a read latency of 12.2ms.