SharePoint Minimum Requirements

Central Administration Operations

Servers in farm
• Issue – Version is 12.0.0.6529 (February 2010). There have been 3 releases since then – April, June and August - all are cumulative.
Recommendation to Client – Catapult Managed Services will upgrade you to the most current release. We will need assistance submitting this to change management.

Diagnostic Logging
• Reviewed logs; no issues found.
Usage Analysis Processing
• Reviewed logs; no issues found.
Timer Job Status
• No issues found.
Alternate Access Mappings
• No issues found.
Manage Farm Features
• All features are Active.

Backup and Restore
• Broadlane is responsible for the backup solution. Catapult does not have visibility into the commvault backup environment. We would like to bring this up on the server call on Wednesday 10/6 to discuss with the server team.

Application Management
Check Services Enabled in this farm
• No issues found.

Shared Services (SSP)
Usage reporting
• No issues found.
User profiles and properties
• No issues found.

Search Administration
System Status
• No issues found.

Active crawls and recently completed crawls
• Review to confirm that the crawls are running as scheduled.

• Issue – Incremental Crawl is currently scheduled to run every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day. We reviewed the actual incremental crawl times and those occasionally exceed 10 minutes.
Recommendation - Change incremental crawl to every 30 minutes, beginning at 5am until 8pm.

• Issue – 1 error “The item may be too large or corrupt”. This is for a Visio diagram and may be larger than the default 20MB size limit set for search crawl.
Recommendation - Notify the client to determine whether they want this size limit increased.

Queries report
• No issues found.
Results report
• No issues found.

Application and Index Server BLPRDSHPIDX01
Server Manager
Event Viewer
• No issues found.
Windows Logs
• No issues found.

Computer Drives
• Issue - OS Drive (C:) is only 30GB with only 3GB free.
Recommendation to Client – Drive size should be increased within the next 90 days or if the paging file is moved off the C: drive, then this could wait 6 months but it eventually needs to be resolved.

• Issue – F: Drive (contains index files) is only 134GB with 112GB free.
Recommendation to Client –Increase storage on F: drive of BLPRDSHPIDX01 to at 400GB minimum (800GB recommended for growth beyond 1TB).
Services

To answer the question below, although the F: drive on Index Server BLPRDSHPIDX01 has 90% free space today, we are requesting the drive to be increased to 400GB minimum because of the projected growth in the very near future (< 30 days). This volume will hold SharePoint index files. As SharePoint crawls content, the Index will consume approximately 30% of the actual data crawled. The file shares being migrated to SharePoint are roughly 1.5TB, so 400GB is an absolute minimum, but it would be ideal to increase this volume to 800GB to allow for 50% growth, otherwise we will need to ask Terremark to expand the drive again.


System Settings
• Issue – Half of the 8GB of memory (RAM) available is being used up by a monitoring tool, NQPerfProvider4.exe.
Recommendation to Client – Restart NetIQ Services to see if memory is freed up from a potential memory leak. If issue re-occurs during next health check, we will advise that NetIQ Services be removed or upgrade since they are negatively impacting SharePoint performance by consuming 50% of memory.

• Issue – Virtual Memory page file is split between the C: and E: drives.
Recommendation to Client – Because the C: drive is nearly full, we recommend moving the page file off the C: drive.

• Observation – Windows Updates are off.
Note – This may not be an issue if other 3rd party update tools are used to keep the server patched.

Web Front End Servers BLPRDSHPWFE01 and BLPRDSHPWFE02

Server Manager
Event Viewer
• No issues found.
Windows Logs
• No issues found.

Computer Drives
• Issue - OS Drive (C:) is only 30GB with only 3GB free.
Recommendation to Client – Drive size should be increased within the next 90 days or if the paging file is moved off the C: drive, then this could wait 6 months but it eventually needs to be resolved.

The web front ends receive a copy of the Index from on a nightly basis, so their F:\ drives need to be roughly the same size. The index copy they receive is slightly compressed so their existing capacity is sufficient.

Services
• No issues found.

System Settings
• Issue – 30% of the 8GB of memory available is being used up by a monitoring tool, NQPerfProvider4.exe.
Recommendation to Client – Restart NetIQ Services to see if memory frees up from potential memory leak. If issue re-occurs during next health check, we will advise that NetIQ Services be removed or upgrade since they are negatively impacting SharePoint performance by consuming 30% of memory.

• Issue – Virtual Memory page file is split between the C: and E: drives.
Recommendation to Client – Because the C: drive is nearly full, we recommend moving the page file off the C: drive.

We recommend moving the page file off the C:\ drive.

• Observation – Windows Updates are off.
Note – This may not be an issue if other 3rd party update tools are used to keep the server patched.

SQL Server
• Issue – Although we may have been granted read-only access to the SQL server, the laptops that were provided to us by Broadlane do not contain the SQL Server Management Tools, therefore we cannot perform a health check of the SharePoint SQL components.
Request to Client –Install SQL Management Studio on laptops