Search Admin Content UX Crawl Content Processing Index Query ProcessingWFE Analytics Processing FAST Search Index SharePoint SP Apps Devices Non-SP UX HTTP File shares SharePoint User profiles Lotus Notes Documentum Exchange folders Custom - BCS Public API Search topology components

 New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology  New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent  New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent  …  Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology

Crawl Component Query Component SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application Crawl Indexing Engine Query Engine Search Admin Property Store (SQL) Conten t UX WFE

FAST Content SSA FAST Query SSA FAST back-end components (managed separately) Extensibility: Sandbox Entity Extraction Indexing Engine Query Engine Content Pipeline Analysis Engine Query Pipeline Search Admin UX WFE Conten t Crawl

Entire index on local disk UX WFE More details: SPC336 - Search Architecture and Sizing in SharePoint 2013 Link/query analysis & recommendations Separate crawl and indexing Conten t Search Admin Crawl Content Processing Index Query Processing Analytics Processing FAST Search Index Property Store (SQL) SharePoint 2013 Search Service Application

msseearch.exe mssdmn.exe Crawl Component noderunner.exe Search Runtime Environment hostcontrollerservice.exe Host Controller SharePoint App Server Still there, but only Crawl Component noderunner.exe Admin Component Query Processing Component Content Processing Component Index Component Analytics Processing Component

ComponentHA mode of operation Crawl ComponentLoad-sharing, stateless in DB Index Component Per partition Primary/Sec/Ter (dynamic selection) Query load-sharing Content/Query Processing componentsLoad-sharing, stateless Analytics Processing ComponentDistributed map/reduce, stateless in DB Admin Component Primary/Secondary (dynamic selection) Hot standby Host Controller (for search dictionary repository) Primary/Secondary (cmdlet controlled) Lost primary–no newdictionaries deployed

Prepare servers HW/SW reqs! Install SharePoint Add servers to farm Start Search Service Instance Create SSA Create a new topology object for the SSA Add search components to the topology Assign components to servers Activate the new topology This will replace the single-server topology with a scaled-out topology

Redundant copies of all databases VM 01 VM 03 VM 02 VM 04 Host server A Host server DHost server C Host server B Crawl Content Processing Index Analytics Processing Admin Query Processing More details: SPC336 - Search Architecture and Sizing in SharePoint 2013 Replica Query Processing

Index Content Processing Index

Content UX Crawl Content Processing Index Query ProcessingWFE Analytics Processing FAST Search Index Query Service: Service availability query processing Query Processing Index: Missing partition Index FAST Search Index Content Processing: Gatherer Content Processing connector Content Processing Search Gatherer: Disk Full Crawler Crawl Analytics analysis: failed to start warning – search analytics Analytics Processing TechNet SCOM knowledge article - us/library/ee513082(v=office.15).aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ee513082(v=office.15).aspx WFE

Daily – Admins Check search topology UI, any component not green there is a problem Monitor performance reports, crawler health and query health Weekly – Admins Verify # of documents per partition and disk space on index, crawler and analytics components DR backup Security updates + Cumulative updates Daily – Business user Review usage reports for trends No Result Queries aka 0 hits Top Queries by Day Abandoned Queries Weekly – Business user For a better search experience create Query Rules Best bets Authoritative Pages

LimitTypeOld ValueNew Value Crawl componentsSupported2 / SSA; 1 / serverUnlimited* Crawl databasesBoundary5 per SSA15 per SSA Crawl log entriesSupported100 millionUnlimited Index componentsSupported60 / SSA; 1 / server60 / SSA; 4 / server Index partitionsSupported20 / SSA25 / SSA Indexed itemsSupported100 M / SSA 10 M / indexer 10 M / indexer (250 M / SSA implied) Search componentsSupportedNot Documented64 / SSA LimitTypeValue Content processing componentsSupported1 / server Content sourcesSupported50 / SSA Index replicasSupported3 / index partition

Cold – Hours to Days Warm – Minutes to Hours Hot – Minutes to Seconds Pros: Cheap…. Maintenance and operational Cons: Slow to recover but this may be ok for your business Pros: Fairly inexpensive to recover Cons: expensive and time-consuming to maintain Cons: Very expensive and time- consuming to maintain Pros: Fastest recovery for critical apps

Cloud Service Virtual Network Windows Azure SQL DR1 (A6) SP DR1 (Large) AD1 (X-Small) On Premises SQL DR2 (A6) SP DR2 (Large) SP DR4 (Large) SP DR5 (Large) SP DR3 (Large) VPN Tunel Queries, Crawler/Content

Add replacement server to topology Clone active topology Add components Activate topology Wait until added components are green For index replica: Seeding must be completed Remove old server from topology Clone, remove, activate Before you remove server from the farm! Verify Host Controller repository status Needs action if primary host controller was on the failed server

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