Test environment (Hardware)

Setting up a test environment.

Server A– SharePoint server, Streaming server and Web Front End

• Dell PowerEdge 2900
• MS Windows Server 2008 R2, Standard Edition
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010
• Processors: Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5450, 2x6MB Cache, 3.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB
• Memory: 4 GB 667 MHz Dual Ranked DIMMs
• 6 Hard Drives:
  • 2 x 73 GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI RAID 1 array (OS drive)
  • 4 x 146 GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI RAID 5 array (where applicable)

Server B – Database server

• Dell PowerEdge 2900
• MS Windows Server 2008 R2 , Enterprise x64 Edition
• Processors: 2 x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5450, 2x6MB Cache, 3.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB
• Memory: 8 GB 667 MHz Dual Ranked DIMMs
• MS SQL Server 2008 R2
• 8 Hard Drives:
  • 2 x 73 GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI RAID 1 array (OS drive)
  • 2 x 73 GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI RAID 0 array (Log files)
  • 4 x 146 GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI RAID 5 array (databases)

Server C – Encoding server

• VM running with 8 GB, 4 Cores
• MS Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition
• .NET Framework 4.0

Clients

• Windows 7
• JMeter
• IE 8

Network

• 1 GB between servers, 100 MB or 1 GB from client to server depending on test

Software

• Social Sites 2.0 with Video Stream 2.0

Deployment

Server A – SharePoint server, Streaming server and Web Front End

• Windows 2008 R2 x64
• SharePoint Server 2010
• Social Sites 2010 2.0
• Social Sites Video Stream 2.0
• IIS 7.5 with Smooth Streaming Media Extensions

Server B – Database server

• Windows 2008 R2 x64
• SQL Server 2008 R2

Server C – Encoding server

• Windows 2008 R2 x64
• Microsoft Expression Encoder Pro

Client

• Windows 7