Body: In my performance and capacity planning discussions, I talk about the proper order of server virtualization within SharePoint. For example, it might make sense to virtualize your web servers and query servers first as these roles typically require less hardware resources and scale out well across...
Body: Major hardware vendors are selling 300GB 10K SAS 2.5 inch form factor drives now for use in their enterprise class DAS systems. This allows you to make incredibly dense storage subsystems. For example, HP’s MSA 70 can host 25 2.5inch spindles in 2U’s. At 300GB per spindle that’s over 7.2TB of raw...
Body: I’m creating a workshop on SharePoint Performance for the upcoming SharePoint Technical Conference (SPTECHCON) and thought since it’s been a while since I blogged I would share my thoughts on the subject. My presentation is entitled SharePoint Performance Read More...