- Understanding Scalability for SharePoint
- Scaling Logical SharePoint Components
- Utilizing and Understanding Clustering for SharePoint
- Choosing the Right Clustering Technology for SharePoint
- Scaling SQL Server with High Availability Alternatives
- Choosing the Appropriate SQL Server High Availability Alternative
- Scaling Across a SharePoint Farm
- Justifying and Deploying Business Portals
- Addressing Common Business Issues with SharePoint Features
- Deploying a Team Collaboration Solution with SharePoint
- Deploying a Corporate Intranet Solution with SharePoint
- Deploying a Customer Extranet Solution with SharePoint
- Summary
- Best Practices
Choosing the Appropriate SQL Server High Availability Alternative
IT professionals designing the back-end database infrastructure for SharePoint are faced with the dilemma of choosing the right high availability technology for their solution. If the Service level agreement at the organization requires a hot standby server to be available for immediate failover, failover clustering and database mirroring in High Availability Configuration mode are the right choice. The failover is nearly seamless for the administrator and clients. If a warm standby server, wherein a less expensive, but not as immediate solution is required, log shipping and database mirroring in High Protection or High Performance mode should suffice. In this scenario, failovers must be conducted manually and the clients will be initially affected. Finally, other factors that affect these decisions are cost, hardware, and site proximity.