understanding and configuring an effective sharepoint 2013 search

Understanding & Configuring An Effective SharePoint 2013

Search Topology

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…do more and better with search.Search Experiences

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Planning – Best PractisesUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

Benchmarking Operating System

o Disable Antivirus scanning for all Search Data Volumes (and for all Search processes)o Enable High Performance power plan

Disk Layouto Set “DataDirectory” to non-system driveo Separate I/O intensives paths to dedicated drive

Service Instanceso Only start Search Query & Site Settings (SQ&SS) on servers that with a Query Processing

Component Data Volume

o Disable disk compression and OS from “indexing” contento Separate I/O intensives paths to dedicated drive

Network o 1 Gbit/s is minimum, 10Gbit/s bettero Multiple network adapters are supported

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Core ArchitectureUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Core ArchitectureUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

Content UX

SearchAdmin

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

API

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search Index

noderunner.exe noderunner.exe noderunner.exe

noderunner.exe

mssearch.exe

w3wp.exe

noderunner.exe

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Core ArchitectureUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

Content UX

SearchAdmin

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

API

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search IndexFeeding Chain

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Core ArchitectureUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

Content UX

SearchAdmin

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

API

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search IndexFeeding Chain Index Core

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Core ArchitectureUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

Content UX

SearchAdmin

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

API

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search IndexFeeding Chain Query ChainIndex Core

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Core ArchitectureUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

Content UX

SearchAdmin

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

API

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search IndexFeeding Chain Query ChainIndex Core

Analytics Service

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Core ArchitectureUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

Content UX

SearchAdmin

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

API

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search IndexFeeding Chain

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Core ArchitectureCrawl Component

OOB connectors Extensible through BCS Local disk cache Crawled items tracked in

Crawl database Configurations stored in Admin

database Crawl modes

o Full Crawlo Incremental Crawlo Continuous Crawl

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

Crawl

FAST Search Index

HTTP

File Shares

SharePoint

User Profiles

Exchange

Lotus NotesDocumentu

m

Custom (BCS)

...SearchAdmin

Admin

mssearch.exe

Stateless node Analyzes content for indexing Processing flow Dictionar`ies Schema mapping Stores links and anchors in Link

database (analytics) Extensible through web service

call-outs Configurations stored in admin

database

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

Crawl

FAST Search Index

SearchAdmin

Admin

AnalyticsProcessing

Link

ContentEnrichmentWeb Service

Core ArchitectureContent Processing Component

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Core ArchitectureUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

Content UX

SearchAdmin

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

API

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search IndexIndex Core

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Core ArchitectureUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

Content UX

SearchAdmin

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

API

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search IndexQuery Chain

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Web Front End

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

SearchAdmin

UXQueryProcessing WFE

API

Index

FAST Search Index

Public API

Unit of scale/role boundary Query APIso Client-Side object model

(CSOM)o Server-Side object model

(SSOM)o REST/OData API

Search Center Display Templates Content by Search

WebPart Refinement Search Box

Search

Core Architecture

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Query Processing Component

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

SearchAdmin

UXQueryProcessing WFE

API

Index

FAST Search Index

Public API

Unit of scale/role boundary Stateless node Processing flows

o Query Analyzero Linguisticso Dictionarieso Result sourceso Schema mappingo Query ruleso Query federation

Configurations stored in admin database

Search

Core Architecture

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Core ArchitectureUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

Content UX

SearchAdmin

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

API

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search Index

Analytics Service

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Search Administration Component

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

SearchAdmin

UXQueryProcessing WFE

API

Index

FAST Search Index

Public API

Unit of scale/role boundary Provisioning Stores Configuration Data

o Topologyo Crawl Ruleso Query Ruleso Property Mappings

Fault Tolerant

Search

Core Architecture

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Search Topology OperationsUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

What Is A Topology?

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Understanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Search Topology OperationsUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

Application Server Administration Service

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Understanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Deployment and ScalingUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

How to scale a topology?

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Deployment and ScalingUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Deployment and ScalingUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Deployment and ScalingUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Deployment and ScalingUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Deployment and ScalingUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Deployment and ScalingUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Hybrid ConfigurationUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Hybrid ConfigurationUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Hybrid ConfigurationUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Hybrid ConfigurationUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Hybrid ConfigurationUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Hybrid ConfigurationUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Backup & Disaster RecoveryUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

What you need to know?o Index in SP 2013 is designed for robust backup and restoreo Everything but the index is in the databaseo Point in Time backupo Backup does not need to be restored to the same topologyo No query down timeo Backup/Restore can make disaster recovery easier

Estimated Figureso Minimum: 8 minutes to backup 10M index: 3 nodes, 2GB of data, 6 minutes

restore.o Max: 8 hours to backup 80M index: 12 nodes, 2TB of data, 6 hours restore

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Backup & Disaster RecoveryUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

What you need to know?o Index in SP 2013 is designed for robust backup and restoreo Everything but the index is in the databaseo Point in Time backupo Backup does not need to be restored to the same topologyo No query down timeo Backup/Restore can make disaster recovery easier

Estimated Figureso Minimum: 8 minutes to backup 10M index: 3 nodes, 2GB of data, 6 minutes

restore.o Max: 8 hours to backup 80M index: 12 nodes, 2TB of data, 6 hours restore

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MonitoringSmall Topology

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MonitoringSmall Topology

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QUESTIONS?

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Evaluate SessionUnderstanding & Configuring An Effective Search Topology

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Architectural Assessments

Migration Planning

Proof of Concepts

Best Practises

Relevance Tuning Scalability

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