Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Viewing a Sample Large SharePoint Farm

SharePoint operates under design principles that are massively scalable if needed. Using redundancy and load-balancing techniques such as the Microsoft Cluster Services and network load balancing, more performance can be obtained from an environment, simply through the addition of other servers to provide redundancy and load balancing to specific roles. For example, in a large farm, such as the one shown in Figure 2.4, multiple servers in cluster and NLB configurations enable the environment to be scaled into a large numbers of users. In addition, multiple search service servers and striped index partitions enable the search infrastructure to scale into the tens of millions of documents indexed.

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