How to set up a small and medium-sized Sharepoint Server Farm

Document directory

• 4. Configure the Web Server
• 5 conclusion

1. Purpose

 

You may have installed SharePoint 2010 to configure a single server farm. This mode can meet the general requirements of small and medium websites. In practical applications, because large and medium-sized websites have high performance requirements, it is often necessary to build small and medium server farms that work collaboratively with multiple servers to meet customers' requirements. However, many people are not very clear about how to build multiple server farms. Let's take a look at the actual situation and introduce the construction process.

Due to space limitations, the steps for installing SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server databases are not described here. If you have any questions, refer to the official Ms documentation. This article describes how to build a small and medium server farm on the sharepoint2010 platform.

 

2 installation requirements

 

The software and hardware environment requirements of the server in this article are as follows:

Hardware environment:

1 web server: hard disk at least 50 GB, recommended 200 GB, memory at least 4 GB, recommended 8 GB

1 app server: hard disk at least 50 GB, recommended 200 GB, memory at least 4 GB, recommended 8 GB

One database server: at least 100 Gb hard disk, 500 GB recommended, at least 4 GB memory, 16 GB recommended

Software environment:

Operating System: Windows 2008 R2 x64

SharePoint version: SharePoint 2010

SQL Server version: SQL Server 2008 r2

When installing the app server and web server Sharepoint, select the "server farm" installation settings for the installation type, such:

 

 

In configuring the server type, select "complete" and then click "Install now", for example:

 

3. Configure the app Server

 

3.1 run the sharepoint2010 Product Configuration Wizard

 

After the sharepoint2010 installation of the app server is complete, click "run Product Configuration Wizard ", you can also click the "windows program-> Microsoft SharePoint 2010 pruducts-> SharePoint 2010 Product Configuration Wizard" menu to run the Configuration Wizard, as shown in:

 

 

After you click the Configuration Wizard, the "User Account Control" window is displayed, and click "yes" for Configuration:

 

Next, go to the welcome page of The SharePoint 2010 Product Configuration Wizard and select "Next" to continue Configuration:

 

 

A warning window is displayed, prompting users that SharePoint and IIS services may be restarted. Click "yes" to continue Configuration:

 

 

Next, we need to configure the server farm to be configured. Select "create new server farm" and select "Next" to continue the server farm Configuration:

 

 

The following describes how to set the database. First, set "Database Server". Enter the server name or IP address here. We recommend that you set the server name for identification. "Database Name" is the default name. The "username" and "password" are the names and passwords of databases that can be accessed. They must be domain accounts. After entering the information, click "Next" to continue Configuration:

 

 

The following is the password of the server farm. This password is used to manage the server farm. When a server is added to the server farm, you need to enter this password. After the password is entered, click "Next" to continue:

 

 

Configure the Web application of the SharePoint Management Center. The default port number can be used here, or a relatively easy-to-remember port number can be specified (note: this port number cannot conflict with the used port number), for example, 10000. "Configuration Security Settings" have two modes: "NTLM" and "negotiation". If you have special security requirements, you can select "negotiation". Here we use the default "NTLM ". Click "Next" to continue:

 

 

The following is a page for confirming configuration parameters. If the parameter configuration is incorrect, click "previous" to modify the settings. After confirming the settings are correct, click "Next" to continue, here, the system starts to configure the parameters set by the user. After the configuration is complete, the user cannot change the parameters at will. If the user does need to change the parameters, you can change the parameters in the SharePoint management center. We recommend that you configure the parameters in one step, do not change the server parameter configuration frequently.

 

 

The configuration progress page appears. Click "cancel" to cancel the ongoing configuration. We will wait for the System Configuration to complete:

 

 

The following page is displayed. Click "OK" to confirm that the configuration is complete.

 

 

In this step, the configuration of the server farm has been completed. The configuration of the server farm management center is as follows.

 

3.2 Server Farm Management Center Configuration

 

After the user clicks the "finish" button, the system automatically displays the IE browser to go to the server farm management center configuration. At this time, the user needs to enter the user name and password for logging on to the management center, enter the username and password used to log on to the server:

 

 

Go to the "help improve SharePoint" Page, use the default configuration, and click "Next" to continue:

 

 

Click "enable wizard" to continue the configuration of the server farm:

 

 

Set the account of the server farm management center below. Here you can enter the specified account for management. Select "use existing management account" and click "Next ":

 

 

The system enters the waiting page. We wait a little while and wait for the server to complete the Configuration:

 

To create a primary website page, you need to create a primary website. Here, because you need to configure the primary website on the Web server, we select the "Skip" option:

 

 

On the configuration completion page, click "finish" to complete the configuration of the server farm management center:

 

 

In this case, you can click the "Application Management" menu to view the content of the management center:

 

 

You can also access the IIS management center to view the IIS configuration information of the SharePoint Management Center:

 

 

SharePoint Central Administration V4 is the SharePoint management center, and the system will create a Sharepoint-80 port website at the same time, we can ignore it.

 

4. Configure the Web Server

 

4.1 run the sharepoint2010 Product Configuration Wizard

 

The Product Configuration Wizard of the Web server is similar to that of the app. Here, the same part is not described too much, but different parts are provided. Click the "windows program-> Microsoft SharePoint 2010 pruducts-> SharePoint 2010 Product Configuration Wizard" menu to run the Configuration Wizard, as shown in:

 

On the User Account Control page, click "yes" to continue Configuration:

 

 

Click "Next" on the welcome page to continue:

 

 

On the warning page, click "yes" to continue Configuration:

 

The options for connecting to the server farm page are different from those for app server configuration. Here, we select "connect to existing server farm" and create multiple server farms together with the app server. Click "Next" to continue:

 

 

Specify the configuration database settings page. Here, let's select the database location corresponding to the app server and the corresponding database. After entering the name of "Database Server", click "retrieve Database Name". The system will list possible database names in "Database Name". After selecting the correct database name, click "Next" to continue:

 

 

Enter the password for entering the specified server farm. Here we enter the password set in the "specify server farm Security Settings" step in APP configuration, and click "Next ":

 

 

After entering the parameter confirmation page, we can click "Advanced Configuration ",

 

 

Go to the "Advanced Settings" page, or click "Next" to continue configuration. The following is the "Advanced Settings" page, here there are two options: "Do not use this computer as the host of the Website" and "use this computer as the host of the website. Ask if you want to use this computer as the server of the SharePoint Administration Center website. Because we have used the app server as the Management Center Server, the default option "do not use this computer as the website host" is selected here. Click "OK" to return to the parameter confirmation page:

 

 

On the parameter confirmation page, select "Next ":

 

 

The system enters the configuration wait page. We will wait for the System Configuration to be completed:

 

 

Click Finish to complete the configuration of adding to the server farm:

 

Here, the web server farm Product Configuration Wizard is complete. Next we will perform subsequent configuration of the Web server farm.

 

4.2 web server farm Configuration

 

After you click "finish", the system prompts IE to enter the user name and password page of the app Server Management Center. Click "OK" to continue:

 

 

On the server farm configuration page, select "launch wizard ":

 

 

The system enters the configuration wait page. We will wait for the server configuration to be completed:

 

 

The system enters the configuration completion page:

 

 

Click "finish" to complete the Field Configuration Wizard.

In this case, you can click "Application Management" to check whether the server farm configuration is correct:

 

 

At this time, the server farm has been set up. to verify whether the server we set up is available, we create a primary website.

 

4.3 create a primary website on the Web Server

 

4.3.1 create an application

 

On the "Application Management" Page, select "manage Web applications page"

 

 

Go to the "Web Application Management" Page and delete the application on the app server corresponding to port 80. The following page is displayed:

 

 

Choose "new", go to the "new web application" Page, select "new IIS website", select port 80 for the port number, and enter the URL of the Web server, do not select the app server (the default is the URL of the app server), enter the corresponding database server and the corresponding database name, and select "OK" to create:

 

 

The system enters the wait page. Wait a moment and the system completes the operation:

 

On the System completion page, click "OK" to complete application creation.

 

 

Click "OK" and the system will return to the "Web Application Management" Page. An additional application record is displayed in the list:

 

 

4.3.2 create a website

 

Return to the "Application Management" Page and select the "Create website set" menu:

 

 

Go to the "Create website set" Page, select the web application where the website set is located, define the website set name, and select the "workgroup Website" template, enter the "user name" of the website administrator and select "OK" to continue:

 

 

The create wait page is displayed:

The system will go to the primary website set creation success page. We can click "OK" to complete the creation. The system will return to the Management Center page.

 

 

You can also click the corresponding URL to enter the newly created website. The logon page is displayed:

 

 

Enter the Administrator's username and password, and click "OK" to go to the homepage website:

 

 

In this case, you can go to the IIS manager of the web server and view the application configuration of the Web server:

 

 

The system displays the application configuration information of the homepage website.

 

5 conclusion

 

Here we have configured an app server, a Web server, and a corresponding database server. The three servers work together on the server farm. Through the above configuration method, we can continue to add multiple app servers and multiple web servers. You can set up your own running services on multiple app servers, including configuring separate search servers or Excel services servers. Multiple web servers can also create different applications to run their respective websites. Of course, we can also use NLB and cluster technologies to build a server farm with better performance. This article will not go into detail. In short, a suitable server farm, through their respective division of labor, can achieve the best performance of each server, to meet various needs, I wish you success.