I recently presented a session at SharePoint Conference 2011 titled “Scaling SharePoint Document and Records Centers to Terabytes and Beyond”. I was quite happy with how the session played out and I wanted to thank those of you who attended for the many kind tweets regarding my session. I had hoped that the “collateral” links …
Category Archive: Capacity Planning
Jul
19
New Content Database and RBS Sizing Guidance
I was eagerly awaiting some new content database and RBS storage guidance that I had heard was coming from Microsoft. Of course, they managed to release the new info when I was out on vacation. Then I had planned on transferring my blog to a new hosting provider and didn’t want to put out any …
Dec
22
Slides from SharePoint Saturday KC
I’m finally getting around to posting the slide deck that presented at SharePoint Saturday KC. The topic was “Architecting for Scale in SharePoint 2010″ It’s a pretty juicy deck with lots of detail that will help you with storage architecture and SQL tuning. It also provides good background on Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) and the …
Oct
24
SP2010 Scalability (3 of 4): Remote BLOB Storage
Binary Large Objects, or BLOBs as the SQL types like to call them, are the byte arrays that represent documents and other files in SharePoint. Typically, they are stored in the SharePoint content database. The reality is, the ECM industry has known for decades that RDBMS is not the best place to store BLOBs. SQL database …
Jun
23
Updated Storage Architecture Whitepaper
So this has been a long time coming. It’s been over a year since I originally wrote the Storage Architecture whitepaper and it was in need of refreshing. While the original content was certainly accurate, there were a few things that I wanted to clarify, particularly after having attended the SharePoint Master training. There were …
Apr
11
Scaling SharePoint 2007 – Storage Architecture
Ok. So after writing that last post on the 100GB database limitation I got some nice feedback from several people. Also, I’m finding that this is information that really needs to get “out there”. Far to often, KL is brought in to implement a document imaging or file share conversion solution in SharePoint. The problem …
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