New-FASTSearchContentCollection

Article
07/25/2014

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010

Creates a new Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint content collection.

Syntax

New-FASTSearchContentCollection [-Name] <String> [[-Description] <String>] [[-Pipeline] <String>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet creates a new FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint content collection.

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Type	Description
Name	Required	System.String	The name of the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint content collection to add.
Description	Optional	System.String	A description of the content collection to add.
Pipeline	Optional	System.String	The FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint item processing pipeline used to feed content to the content collection. In FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint the only pipeline defined is “Office 14 (webcluster)”. Since this is also the default pipeline, you do not need to specify this parameter when creating a new content collection.

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Example

---------------EXAMPLE 1-----------------

New-FASTSearchContentCollection -Name newscollection

This example creates a new FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint content collection named “newscollection”.

---------------EXAMPLE 2-----------------

New-FASTSearchContentCollection -Name newscollection -Description "A collection for news content"

This example creates a new content collection named “newscollection”, and attaches a description to it.

Note

Creating an additional content collection uses memory. You should consider an additional memory consumption of 500 MB per content collection per running indexer node. For example, in an environment with two indexers and two content collections, the total memory consumption will be 2x(2X500MB)=2000MB, or 2 GB, divided across all indexers.

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