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Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010


Better Together
Bill Baer, Technical Product Manager, SharePoint Product Group

August 2010

Summary: This white paper describes the benefits of deploying Microsoft

SharePoint

Server 2010 on the


Windows Server

2008 R2 Enterprise operating system and scenarios in which the features of Windows
Server 2008 R2 Enterprise can be applied.

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Contents
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Scale to Meet the Most Demanding Workloads ....................................................................................................... 4
Processor Scale ........................................................................................................................................... 4
Memory Scale .............................................................................................................................................. 4
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5........................................................................................................... 5
Enable Effective Business Continuity Management .................................................................................................. 5
Failover Clustering ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Fault-Tolerant Memory Synchronization .......................................................................................................... 5
Reduce Cost with Virtualization ............................................................................................................................ 5
Live Migration .............................................................................................................................................. 6
Enable Remote User Productivity .......................................................................................................................... 6
DirectAccess ................................................................................................................................................ 6
BranchCache ............................................................................................................................................... 6
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Additional Resources .......................................................................................................................................... 7
About the Author................................................................................................................................................ 7


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Introduction
Microsoft

SharePoint

Server 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the Internet.
SharePoint Server 2010 has become a business-critical application and an integral part of business processes.
To help IT infrastructures to remain flexible and scalable to help support, manage, and secure expanded
functionality, an influx of additional users and locations, and increasingly robust applications such as
SharePoint Server 2010, we recommend that you choose the Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise operating
system during initial deployment.
Choosing an edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 is an important step when planning your SharePoint Server
2010 deployment, from understanding which features are important to your deployment needs, to
enhancing security, or designing topologies that enable seamless scale.
To understand which features are right for your deployment, you should first understand and prioritize your
organization's underlying business requirements. For example, you may need to support a rich Internet sites
solution or a robust intranet solution that requires you to deploy a high level of scalability and high
availability. In either scenario, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise offers dimensions of scale and a rich
feature set to support a variety of workloads.
Note: Some of the features discussed in this paper span Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008
editions. These features are annotated where appropriate.
Scale to Meet the Most Demanding Workloads
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides the scalability necessary to meet the most demanding
SharePoint Server 2010 deployments. As SharePoint Server 2010 adoption increases or pilot environments
are shifted toward production, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides the headroom to meet spikes in
demand for business-critical applications.
Processor Scale
Whether you have deployed a high volume enterprise content management environment or an acquisition
has increased demand, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides the capability to scale through support
for up to eight x64 sockets. The flexibility to scale Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise servers is important to
assuring a seamlessly scalable SharePoint Server 2010 deployment.
Memory Scale
Designing a deployment for scale can be a challenging task, because as resource utilization increases, servers
need to be able to respond rapidly to the demand. Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise enables memory
scale up to two terabytes to support resource-intensive applications. It also enhances scalability through Hot
Add Memory, enabling banks of memory to be added to a computer and made instantly available to the
operating system and applications as part of the normal memory pool without rebooting.
For more information about Hot Add Memory and infrastructure design processes, see the Infrastructure
Planning and Design Guides for Windows Server 2008 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=198493).
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Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5
IIS 7.5 provides tools and features to enable rapid deployment, simplified management, and more effective
governance. Features such as configuration logging enable you to better manage and surface changes to your
Web servers, best practice analyzers report best practice violations, and administration can be simplified by
scripting common management tasks with the new Windows PowerShell command-line interface.
For more information about IIS 7.5 in Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, see Windows Server 2008 R2:
Internet Information Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=198494).
Enable Effective Business Continuity
Management
SharePoint Server 2010 deployments benefit from well-planned business continuity strategies that enable
the infrastructure as a whole to continue when equipment fails.
Failover Clustering
SharePoint Server 2010 provides native support for database mirroring. However, in some organizations
database mirroring does not provide the scale or flexibility required to support the deployment. In these
instances, you may want to consider using failover clustering, or a combination of failover clustering and
database mirroring.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides robust failover clustering and simplifies setup and management
while providing dynamic failover for both planned and unplanned server downtime. Failover clustering in
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise enables an organization to not only add nodes as needs increase, but
also supports geographically dispersed (multi-site) clustering for even more disaster-tolerant clusters.
For more information about using multi-site failover clustering with SharePoint Server 2010, see KB Article
971160: Description of Microsoft support for a SharePoint configuration that is hosted in a geographically
dispersed SQL Server cluster (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=199046). For more information about
failover clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2, see Windows Server 2008 R2: Failover Clustering
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=198495).
Fault-Tolerant Memory Synchronization
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise enables an administrator to extend benefits similar to RAID to the
operating system layer through fault-tolerant memory synchronization. Fault-tolerant memory
synchronization allows systems to request that the operating system copy a current instance of Windows to
another system resulting in identical memory images for complete hardware fault tolerance.
Reduce Cost with Virtualization
Large-scale SharePoint Server 2010 deployments and global audiences require increased management and
operations, flexible maintenance schedules, and the ability to cope with increases and decreases in demand.
Virtualization can address these challenges, enabling administrators to support flexible maintenance
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schedules and reduce power consumption by dynamically increasing consolidation ratios and powering off
unused physical hosts during lower demand times. Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides a rich set of
features to support these scenarios.
Live Migration
Live migration is a technology in Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Hyper-V that allows you to move a
virtual machine workload from one physical server to another without a disruption of service or downtime.
Live migration enables an organization with multiple Hyper-V physical hosts to service systems seamlessly
and respond to a global business climate with no defined maintenance windows by scheduling maintenance
during regular business hours.
For more information about live migration in Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, see the Windows Server
2008 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration Whitepaper (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=198496).
Enable Remote User Productivity
Todays enterprise employs a global workforce, whether within continental boundaries or half way around
the world. Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise has the capabilities to provide a robust experience for remote
users securely and seamlessly.
DirectAccess
DirectAccess is a new feature in the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems that gives
users the experience of being seamlessly connected to their corporate network any time they have Internet
access. With DirectAccess, users are able to access SharePoint Server 2010 sites and other corporate
resources anytime they have an Internet connection without the complexity of establishing a VPN
connection.
For more information about DirectAccess in Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, see Windows Server 2008
R2: DirectAccess: Getting Started (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=198497).
BranchCache
BranchCache is a new technology in the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems that can
help increase the network responsiveness of centralized applications accessed by remote users. Using
BranchCache provides remote users the experience of working on a local area network, and reduces WAN
utilization.
For more information about BranchCache in Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, see Windows Server 2008
R2: BranchCache (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=198498).
Conclusion
In planning your deployment, you should carefully evaluate your SharePoint Server 2010 deployment needs
and the features available in Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise for the following scenarios:
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Enterprise deployments with a geographically dispersed user base
Deployments with a large number of mobile and remote users
Regulated environments that require a high level of data security and compliance
Mission-critical scenarios where high availability, disaster recovery, and minimal downtime are
required
Additional Resources
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Overview (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=198499)
Windows Server 2008 R2: Edition Comparison by Technical Specification
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=198500)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Overview (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=198501)
About the Author
Bill Baer is a Technical Product Manager in the SharePoint product group in Redmond, Washington and
Microsoft Certified Master for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. He was previously a Hewlett-Packard
Technology Solutions Group MVP with a background in infrastructure engineering and enterprise
deployments of SharePoint Products and Technologies. He is active in the SharePoint community through
evangelism, his blog, fellowship engagements, and events such as TechEd, TechReady, and SharePoint and
Office developer conferences.

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