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SP 2016 Small, Medium or Large Farm - Spec Details
The MS TechNet article at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt743704(v=office.16).aspx mentions Small, Medium and Large farms. Does anyone know what numerical values should be used to determine which size topology should be specified?
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There is no hard and fast rule about what you need to use to determine the size of the farm. Concurrent user count, content size, application usage, or perhaps even service isolation all come into play to determine the size of a farm. Even then, it's mostly a shot in the dark based on past experience :-) E.g. I've seen 6 server farms (6 SharePoint, 2 SQL in a Mirror) support a few hundered thousand users. But it isn't uncommon to build a 4 SharePoint server farm for HA purposes when you have as little as a few hundered users.
Thanks, that is what I thought. I have a vague memory of seeing some documentation from MS about how many servers they were using with the number of users, but I can't find it anymore.
My current client has 4 wfes w/ 24 GB/RAM, Quad core, 2. 4 Intel Xeon, CTUP E5-4640, and they are heavily loaded, 60-70% on average all day , all 4 boxes generate high CPU level warning at least once a week (they have a LOT of Nintex workflows). They are moving their data center to Azure and replacing this 2013 farm with a 2016/SPO hybrid farm. Given that we can getter better machines in Azure, we are tyring to decide how many WFEs we should use. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
- If CPU pressure is the only thing you're experiencing, adding additional vCPUs would be appropriate. Consider scale-up instead of scale-out.
