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Calculate SharePoint 2013 search index size

Tanmoy Das 806 Reputation points
2021-07-15T01:51:59.85+00:00

Hi,

How I can calculate the Search index size for my SP 2013 farm?

Thanks

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SharePoint Server: A family of Microsoft on-premises document management and storage systems.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
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  1. Elsie Lu_MSFT 9,796 Reputation points
    2021-07-15T09:50:12.94+00:00

    Hi @Tanmoy Das ,

    Per my research, as this post mentioned, the TechNet article Estimate performance and capacity requirements for SharePoint Server 2010 Search provides the following formula to estimate the size of index partitions:

    ContentDBSum = Size of content that is crawled.
    TotalIndezSize = ContentDBSum * 0.35
    QueryComponentIndexSize = TotalIndexSize / Number of index partitions

    The factor is not changed in SharePoint 2013. The size of the index ultimately depends on the size and the contents of the documents that are indexed. Text heavy documents will yield a larger index while image heavy documents will yield a smaller index.

    An other similar post for your referene:
    Search Size in SharePoint 2013

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