BLOB Storage + SharePoint 2010 Performance

 

This is an interesting white paper on the performance of enabling RBS “Remote Blob Storage” with SharePoint 2010.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=4ce0c906-3f71-4fff-b3f9-9462343c453f&displaylang=en

Couple of interesting exerts from the paper!

- Objectives of the test

 SQL Server database data and transaction log file sizes
 Backup file size
 Time taken to back up and restore content database
 Time taken to rebuild content database indexes
 Effects of index rebuild operation on performance of end-user transactions
 SharePoint transaction response times
 SharePoint Server search crawl operation
 File upload performance
 Consistent performance as the scale of the content increases
 Time taken to migrate data in and out of the RBS store

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Time to backup the DB’s

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Response times “very cool”

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Checkout the load times!

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Search Crawl Times

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One of my favorites “File Upload Times”

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Overall an amazing paper!  Great Job!