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Implementation Considerations for FAST Search For SharePoint (FS4SP)
Presenter : Shyam Narayan
MOSSIG – February 2011 Meeting
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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
Best of Microsoft
Best of SharePointBest of High-end• Dynamic user experiences• Advanced content processing• Broad repository connectivity• Extreme scale and performance• Open and Extensible Platform
• Simplicity and low TCO• Familiar, integrated
developer tools• Windows 7 Integration• Robust partner and platform eco-
system
Enterprise Search from
Microsoft
The Vision: A New Choice in Search
• Out-of-the-box intranet search• People Search• SharePoint platform integration• No code customization
Microsoft Enterprise Search- ProductivityProducts 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)
FAST Search Extends SharePoint
Superset of capabilities; common base functionality and platform
End Users Content
Content search
People search
Common query and federation APIs
Common connectors and content APIs
Best High-End Content Search based on FAST ESP
Unique Social Search from SharePoint Server 2010
Common IT Pro and developer experience
FAST Search for SharePoint
SharePoint Server2010
Advanced Content Processing
+ Profiles
Query SSA
Content SSA
FAST Search Server 2010Summary of architectural components
Custom Front-End
OpenSearch or Other Sources
SharePoint Front-end
People Search
Qu
ery
Obje
ct M
od
el
Query and Result
Processing
Security AccessModule
SearchCore
Indexing
Federation Object Model
Query Web Service
Advanced Content
Processing
Linguistics
WebLink
AnalysisConnectors
• Web Crawler• JDBC
Connectors• SharePoint• File Traverser• Web • BDC• Exchange• Notes• Documentum
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
Monitoring Services
Administration and Schema Object Model
Site Collection Level Admin UI• Keyword Management• User Context Management• Site Promotion/Demotion
PowerShell
• Schema configuration• Admin configuration• Deployment configuration
Central Administration UI
• Property mapping• Property extraction• Spell-checking
FAST Server(s)
SharePoint Server(s)
Other Server(s)
Content
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 EndpointsWeb parts and Web Services
Query and Content SSA’s
Topology - FAST Search Server 2010 and SharePoint Server Farms – Redundancy and Availability
Content SSA
FAST Farm
Query SSA
Content Distributor
FAST specific connectors
Item Processing Indexing Dispatcher
Web Analyzer
Query Processing
Search Cluster
Indexing and Query Matching
FSA
Administration Node
System Requirements
• x64 Servers running Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2
• Memory - 4GB (min) – 16GB (recommended)
• CPU – 4 Cores @ 2.0Ghz (min) – 8 cores @ 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