Authors: Quocdat Nguyen and Ravikanth Chaganti

The Dell SharePoint Solutions Team is pleased to announce the release of Dell’s small physicalSharePoint farm and a small virtualized SharePoint farm on Hyper-V.

• SharePoint 2010 Small Farm performance study usingDell R610 and R710 Servers and EQL PS6000XV Storage. This paper details information on how the farm was configured, some of the factors considered while designing the farm, how Dell performs SharePoint load testing, and finally provides several performance metrics of various farm components. This paper also details information on how the recommended farm architectures could support more than 2000 concurrent users and achieve sub one second response times.

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LINK to the Blog

Link to previous Performance Studies on a SharePoint Farm

• Virtualizing a Small SharePoint 2010 Farm using R710 servers and PS6000XV on Microsoft Hyper-V. This white paper details the configuration and performance of deploying a small SharePoint 2010 farm on Dell servers and storage.  Load testing was performed to measure the performance utilization of the virtual machines, physical servers and storage components.  1500 concurrent users were supported with sub second response times on two servers in a fully redundant configuration.

LINK to whitepaper

LINK to Blog

Link to previous Performance Studies on a SharePoint Farm

Previous Releases:

For previous releases of Reference Architecture and Performance Study white papers, please refer to theFeatured Whitepapers wiki page.