Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Architecture

1 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Architecture Logical Architecture Physical Architecture High availability and disaster recovery Load balancer Sites High availability and disaster recovery are achieved by planning and implementing a strategy that meets predefined organizational goals and objectives for business continuity. This strategy must include the processes and procedures that are required to Application Pool SharePoint Server 2013 Farm Office Web Apps Server Farm support the technologies that an HA or DR solution uses.

2 Web application collaboration sites SharePoint guiding principles: Because every organization is unique, do not use a standard approach for your solution. http://my http://communities http://team Physical host A Physical host B Design for high availability and disaster recover first, then performance and capacity. The SharePoint databases are the key consideration in any high availability or disaster recovery solution. Design from the bottom up. http://my/personal/<user> Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Office Web Apps Server Physical Environment Primary Data Center Virtual Environment Office Web Apps Server is a separate Server product that can perform these functions: ( ).

3 High availability: High availability: Serve multiple SharePoint farms for viewing and editing. Virtual machine placement on different virtualization host servers Virtual machine placement on Physical host C Physical host D Redundant and fault tolerant design: Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Windows Server Failover Clustering on host servers different virtualization host View files from Exchange Server and Microsoft Lync. Data center Live migration enabled servers Network devices such as switches and routers Application Server Application Server Integrate with URL-accessible file servers.

4 Windows Server Failover Servers and peripherals such as power supply, Query & Index Query & Index Clustering on host servers network adapters, local storage, and remote If you separate Office Web Apps from the SharePoint farm, you can update servers more frequently Highly available Architecture Live migration enabled Saving and synchronizing content Community sites and manage scale and performance independent of the SharePoint environment. The Office Web storage Facilities Power, cooling, and When deployed, a user's My Site document library is the default location for A new site template named Community Sites offers a forum experience to Replica Index partition 1 Replica Apps Server Architecture does not include a database.

5 If more than one Server hosts Office Web Apps communications Redundant Redundant in a deployment, add a load balancer or configure Application Request Routing in IIS. Local and regional alternate power, WAN, files that Microsoft Office 2013 client applications save. A discovery service categorize and cultivate discussions with a broad group of people across Farm Server roles Services and communications identifies the URL of the user's My Site and offers it as the default location in organizations within a company.

6 You can deploy a stand-alone community Service applications Application Server Application Server . addition to other locations available for saving files. This promotes the (shown). Or, you can activate community features on any site, which provides All other search components and All other search components and Application components Data center backup and restore strategy: concept of storing files in the document library of a user's My Site where the core Community Site pages, moderation, membership, and reputation application roles application roles Best practice policies and procedures Social Architecture items can be managed, governed, shared, and moved.

7 This helps reduce the functionality within the existing site without creating a separate Community Crawler Crawler Monitoring and reporting tools Web Servers Application Servers Index Partition 1 Backup and recovery tools and Architecture amount of content that other systems, such as email or personal drives, Site. Off-site storage physical or in the cloud A1 W2. store. Distributed cache W1 A1 Query and index Replica A3 W3. Physical host E Physical host F. Service applications As social computing becomes more pervasive, the infrastructure must support more demand.

8 A4 W1. SharePoint Server 2013 adds distributed cache to improve performance of social feeds. The new A2 W4. All SharePoint databases All SharePoint databases distributed cache service is built on the reliability of Windows Server AppFabric Caching. To improve W2 A2 Query and index All SharePoint Databases IIS Web Site SharePoint Web Services performance, distributed cache performs the following functions: Replica Hyper-V. Crawler dB virtualization Application pool Caching social data, such as news feeds.

9 High availability options: host servers Database mirroring Caching authentication tokens. Other search AlwaysOn Availability Group Search Managed Metadata User Profile Excel Services Access Services Visio Graphics W3 A3 components and Crawler Database clustering Distributed cache is enabled by default and is automatically started on all web servers and application roles AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance SQL Server installed and configured to support SQL clustering, mirroring, or AlwaysOn (AlwaysOn Availability Groups is a feature of SQL Server 2012).

10 Application servers in a farm. In very large environments distributed cache can be offloaded to Live migration enabled dedicated servers. Other search W4 A4 components and Crawler Secure Store Service Business Data Word Automation Work Management App Management Machine Translation Newsfeeds application roles Connectivity The Newsfeed page in the My Site continues to provide an aggregated view of activities that are App management related to the interests of users. However, the feed is enhanced with new microblogging functionality.