New SharePoint 2010 Storage recommendations
We have updated our Software boundaries and limits for SharePoint 2010 with SP1 !
View the anouncement on the product group blog:
"If this new guidance is followed SharePoint can support up to 4 TB of data in
all usage scenarios and has no imposed size limit for document archive
scenarios. The details are in the TechNet document SharePoint Server 2010
capacity management: Software boundaries and limits and the primary changes
are:
- For a SharePoint content database up to 200 GB there are no special
requirements and this limit is included for consistency. - For a SharePoint content database up to 4 TB you need to additionally
plan for the following two requirements:- Requires disk sub-system
performance of 0.25 IOPS per GB, 2 IOPS per GB is recommended for optimal
performance. - Requires the customer to have
plans for high availability, disaster recovery, future capacity, and performance
testing. - And you need to review additional
considerations in the TechNet Boundaries and Limits
article.
- Requires disk sub-system
- For a SharePoint content database over 4TB specifically for a
Document Archive scenario you are required to additionally plan for the
following:- SharePoint sites must be based on Document Center or Records
Center site templates and must be an archive scenario where less than 5% of
content is actively read from each month and less than 1% of content is actively
written to. - Do not use alerts, workflows, link fix-ups, or item level security on any
SharePoint objects in the content database. Note: document archive content
databases can be the recipient of documents as a result of Content Routing
workflow.
- SharePoint sites must be based on Document Center or Records
- Other specific limits changes being made at the same time:
- A new limit of 60million items in any one SharePoint content database
- The specific 5 TB limit per SQL Server instance has been removed. Instead
you should work with a SQL Server professional to plan for database storage."