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Small Server Farm<br />

Chapter 9: Capacity Planning 191<br />

A small server farm is a step above a single server with SQL Server. In this scenario,<br />

there are two servers in the farm—one runs the SharePoint Portal Server components,<br />

<strong>and</strong> the other runs SQL Server 2000. Having SQL Server on a separate system<br />

frees up some resources from the server running SharePoint Portal Server, allowing<br />

it to support more users. Also, it is often used in organizations where there is an<br />

existing SQL Server database or where administrative boundaries require certain<br />

administrators to manage SQL Server systems <strong>and</strong> other administrators to manage<br />

the intranet. Figure 9-1 depicts a small server farm topology infrastructure.<br />

SharePoint<br />

Server<br />

SQL Server<br />

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Figure 9-1 Small server farm topology infrastructure<br />

Hardware Recommendations<br />

The reference configuration for a small server farm deployment used throughout the<br />

chapter are given in the following paragraphs.<br />

For a server running SharePoint Portal Server, the following configuration was<br />

used:<br />

■ 1 x 2.4-GHz Pentium-4 processor<br />

■ 1-GB main memory exp<strong>and</strong>able to 4 GB<br />

■ Embedded ATA-100 IDE controller<br />

■ 2 x 40-GB IDE ATA-100 disks<br />

■ Embedded 10/100/1000-GB Ethernet interface card (NIC)<br />

For SQL Server, the following configuration was used:<br />

■ 1 x 2.4-GHz Pentium-4 processor<br />

■ 1-GB main memory exp<strong>and</strong>able to 4 GB<br />

■ Embedded ATA-100 IDE controller<br />

■ 2 x 40-GB IDE ATA-100 disks<br />

■ Embedded 10/100/1000-GB Ethernet interface card (NIC)

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