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What size is my farm?
Currently, I work for a state agency that has a SharePoint 2010 farm. I have been tasked to build a new 2016 or 2019 farm (on-premise) so, eventually, we can migrate everything over. I've been doing a lot of reading about min-roles and planning for 2019 but there is one question that I can't find an answer to. How do I determine if our farm will be small, medium, or large? All documentation for planning keeps mentioning the farm size but I don't know what size we have. This answer will help me decide how many servers to build. Is it by the # of users or what? What is the best way to decide?
- spucelik
Microsoft
Christopher...here are some good resources to review:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/administration/capacity-planning
- Take a look at the topology diagrams that should help you here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/technical-reference/technical-diagrams By the way, the size of your farm should be determined by the following factors:
- Number of users accessing the farm
- Main use in the farm
- High availability requirements
If you don't have more than 1000 users I think you are good to a shared minrole topology...for more users, I would go for a non-shared minrole topologyHere are some of our numbers from the past year. Don't believe we need high availability so I'm leaning towards a shared minrole topology.
- Total Licenses Allocated: 818 (total licenses: 1200)
- Average Number of Search Queries per Day: 14
- Searchable items: 286,091
- Average Number of Page Views per Day: 3,170
- Average Number of Unique Visitors per Day: 102
- Total Number of Sites: 349
- Total Storage Used (MB): 189,864
