Setting-up SharePoint 2010 stretched farm

re: Setting-up SharePoint 2010 stretched farm

Samir — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:09:55 GMT

Great article Berryst,

Waiting for SharePoint components failover especially search components

Thanks

re: Setting-up SharePoint 2010 stretched farm

HA in Cross Farm service farm — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:38:51 GMT

Berryst,

Thanks for a wonderful overview, it has helped allot... I'm in the proces of building a cross farm service enviorment, I would like to build in HA for the service applications MMS, UPA, Web Ana, Secure Store and Search...

While I understand how to build in some HA into search service, I'm not sure how to build it into the other four can you point me to guides or examples on how to get the services into a HA

Thank in advance

Gerald

re: Setting-up SharePoint 2010 stretched farm

berryst — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:06:46 GMT

Santosh, That will provision a central administration site in your server. This will only provision administration interface, whilst the content of the configurations/service application will remain the same with the first one that is provisioned as part of sharepoint installation.

re: Setting-up SharePoint 2010 stretched farm

santosh kanse — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:19:32 GMT

Thanks Berryst, for your valuable input.

well the above comand will create new SP central admin or use existing one? if new one then do i have to configure exryting for services application which I configured in DR1 Application server

Thanks.

re: Setting-up SharePoint 2010 stretched farm

berryst — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:21:01 GMT

Hi Santosh,

Please find my responses

1) you can always run multiple Central Administration web sites to different sharepoint servers within a sharepoint farm. You can do this in two ways:

a) PSCOnfig -cmd adminvs (technet.microsoft.com/.../cc263093.aspx)

b)Powershell : New-SPCentralAdministration (technet.microsoft.com/.../ff607841.aspx)

2) For the the service application itself, you can have one configured within your farm. and the service instances (Hope you understand difference between service application and service instance, here's for more information about this: ), In my opinion you should keep the services on DC2 started as what you have on DC1, so that when we've got unexpected failure, they will automatically run. But, if you'd like to keep the services on DC2 to be in stopped state for some reasons, that should be fine too but you'll need to figure it out how you're going to bring the services started on DC2 when failure comes. HTH

re: Setting-up SharePoint 2010 stretched farm

santosh kanse — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:52:30 GMT

Thanks berryst, nice Articles with details steps abt Strech Farm concept for SharePoint.

I have followling Queries.

1) can I create multiple Central admin site using diffrent port i.e Central Admin site at DC1 at Port 8080 other Cental admin site at DC2 at port 8081 so that is DC1 down then Administrator can access CA from DC2 server , or any other things i need to do.

2) What abt the services application is same sevicess Applicaitons i need to configure on DC2 Application server which is configured on DC1 Application server or only once i need to configure services. pls clarify.

Thanks for your time

Santosh K.