
Implementing SharePoint Server 2010 on Dell vStart Solution - A Reference Architecture for a
SharePoint Server 2010 farm on vStart 100 Hyper-V Solution
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Figure 2 SharePoint 2010 on vStart - High level architecture overview
As shown in Figure 2, the SharePoint 2010 farm roles were placed across all three available hypervisor
servers in the Hyper-V cluster. This recommended placement of virtual machines enables equal load on
all the hypervisor servers. For each virtual machine in the Hyper-V cluster, preferred node
configuration ensures that the virtual machines always start on their preferred node. Also, the
preferred node configuration allows specification of the failover node to which the VM must move in
case of any Hyper-V host level failure. This configuration ensures the overall Hyper-V cluster is equally
loaded even in the case of a Hyper-V node failure. The following table shows the preferred owner and
failover node configuration for each SharePoint farm role in this architecture.
Table 3 SharePoint 2010 farm role placement and failover configuration
Application Server 1 (APP1)
Application Server 2 (APP2)
The failback configuration was enabled to ensure that the virtual machines (or SharePoint farm roles)
failback to the preferred nodes once the failed node state gets restored to normal state. This allows
movement of virtual machines back to the preferred nodes to balance the virtual machines across the
Hyper-V Cluster. However, failing back a virtual machine to a preferred node involves saving the state
of the virtual machine and restoring the same on preferred owner. This causes disruption in service
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