Implementation Considerations for FAST Search For SharePoint (FS4SP) Presenter : Shyam Narayan MOSSIG – February 2011 Meeting b:

Introduction Solutions Architect at Pitcher Partners Consulting in Melbourne vTSP – Business Collaboration Platform at Microsoft Primarily focused on SharePoint and.NET Technologies Agile advocate Other interests

Agenda FAST Search Architecture Deployment Planning FS4SP Deployment Post Installation Configurations - Content Feeding, Connectors, SSA Tips and Tricks Q&A

Dynamic user experiencesDynamic user experiences Advanced content processingAdvanced content processing Broad repository connectivityBroad repository connectivity Extreme scale and performanceExtreme scale and performance Open and Extensible PlatformOpen and Extensible Platform Simplicity and low TCOSimplicity and low TCO Familiar, integrated developer toolsFamiliar, integrated developer tools Windows 7 IntegrationWindows 7 Integration Robust partner and platform eco- systemRobust partner and platform eco- system Out-of-the-box intranet searchOut-of-the-box intranet search People SearchPeople Search SharePoint platform integrationSharePoint platform integration No code customizationNo code customization

Microsoft Enterprise Search- Productivity Products for Every Customer Need OOB General Productivity Search with light customization Heavily customizable OOB General Productivity Search and easy to build Search-Driven Applications Common UI Framework Social search features and integration SharePoint platform integration End user and site administrator enablement Common across the product line Common Connector Framework (BDC) APIs and developer Experience Admin & deployment capabilities Operations advantages (SCOM, scripting)

Query SSA Content SSA

FAST Search Server 2010 Summary of architectural components FAST Server(s) SharePoint Server(s) Other Server(s)

Getting ready for deployment …

Planning that needs to be done Search Solution Planning FAST Server Farm Topology Redundancy and Availability System Requirements

Search Solution Planning Plan content collection and Crawl Schedules Design the Index Schema Crawled to Managed Properties Rank Profiles and Relevancy tuning Query Refinement Security Considerations Plan for monitoring and recovery

Topology - FAST Search Server 2010 and SharePoint Server Farms FAST Server(s) SharePoint Server(s) Other Server(s) Service Endpoints Web parts and Web Services Query and Content SSA’s

Topology - FAST Search Server 2010 and SharePoint Server Farms – Redundancy and Availability FSA Administration Node

System Requirements x64 Servers running Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Memory - 4GB (min) – 16GB (recommended) CPU – 4 2.0Ghz (min) – 8 2.0GHz (recommended) Disk – 50 GB (minimum) – 1 TB in a RAID configuration Other Requirements Windows Firewalls are turned on Static IP Addressing scheme Windows updates are turned off DST and Anti –Virus

Deployment Installation Stand-alone deployment Multi-server deployment

Similar to SharePoint Install FS4SP Installation Process

Similar to SharePoint Install FS4SP Installation Process

Stand-alone server configuration Easy to setup and can handle 15 million indexed items Used for development environments, test and small scale production environment All FS4SP components deployed on a single server No scalability or failover capabilities Can be changed to a multiple server deployment

Multi-server configuration More complex to setup and has no theoretical upper bounds for scale Recommended for most production environments FS4SP components deployed on a specialised server to provide scalability and failover capabilities Additional operational overheads

Post deployment configurations Content Search Service Application Query Search Service Application

Content Search Service Application Create SSA to associate FAST Farm with SharePoint farm and enable crawling Enable content feeding Content sources managed through SharePoint Central Administration Deploy additional connectors specific to FAST

Query Search Service Application Create Query SSA to enable queries from the SharePoint WFE’s Contains the query and crawl component for people search Configure FAST Specific service endpoints – Query, Administration and Resource Store. Add Query SSA to the default group for your web applications Enable Claims Based Authentication

Backup, Recovery and Monitoring

Backup, Restore and Monitoring Plan backup and restore strategies early in your FAST deployment process Configuration backup and restore Full backup and restore Pair with SharePoint Backups No UI all backups and restores administered via PowerShell SMO is required Monitor FS4SP SCOM SP1 or R2 WMI Perfmon and SP Logs

Questions and Answers