Here, we see the opportunity to transfert our file server into a sharePoint server. We have more than 100 different projects and some projects have more than 100MB of files. The biggest has 1962 MB.

We expect that each project could be represented as a site on the portal. RAM is 1GB, CPU is Pentium 4 with 2.4GHz
We want to know if SharePoint Portal Server 2003 used with a SQL Server Enterprise would be hard enough to host all these files.

Does someone could give me an opinion based on experience or a link were I could get infos on scalability and performance?

Thanks,

David

How big can SPS 2003 host documents with SQL Server? by Rodrigo

Rodrigo
Thu Nov 06 14:05:53 CST 2003

Look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/deploy/confeat/
fsdoclib.asp

Rodrigo


>-----Original Message-----
>Here, we see the opportunity to transfert our file
server into a sharePoint server. We have more than 100
different projects and some projects have more than 100MB
of files. The biggest has 1962 MB.
>
>We expect that each project could be represented as a
site on the portal. RAM is 1GB, CPU is Pentium 4 with
2.4GHz
>We want to know if SharePoint Portal Server 2003 used
with a SQL Server Enterprise would be hard enough to host
all these files.
>
>Does someone could give me an opinion based on
experience or a link were I could get infos on
scalability and performance?
>
>Thanks,
>
>David
>.
>

Re: How big can SPS 2003 host documents with SQL Server? by James

James
Thu Nov 06 14:05:32 CST 2003

If you can get them in, it will work. Usually, though, there are problems
getting files in which are over 75MB. Also SharePoint does not like
embedded files. If the project files you have embed other file types,
sharepoint's crawling engine does not like them, so you should break them
into seperate files as well.

SQL can support larger file sizes, but SharePoint tends to have timeouts
which cause the large upload problem.

--
James Edelen
Microsoft MVP - SharePoint Portal Server
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Media Center
Microsoft Associate Expert
Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"David" <david.parenteau@compuware.com> wrote in message
news:4740AB7B-79F4-4934-8BBD-AAAFCFE4A43F@microsoft.com...
> Here, we see the opportunity to transfert our file server into a
sharePoint server. We have more than 100 different projects and some
projects have more than 100MB of files. The biggest has 1962 MB.
>
> We expect that each project could be represented as a site on the portal.
RAM is 1GB, CPU is Pentium 4 with 2.4GHz
> We want to know if SharePoint Portal Server 2003 used with a SQL Server
Enterprise would be hard enough to host all these files.
>
> Does someone could give me an opinion based on experience or a link were I
could get infos on scalability and performance?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David



Re: How big can SPS 2003 host documents with SQL Server? by James

James
Thu Nov 06 14:10:56 CST 2003

Note that my previous post delt with single file sizes. If all of your
single files in the projects are under 75mb, then sharepoint should be a
great solution for you and can easily handle several hundred gigabytes of
files.

--
James Edelen
Microsoft MVP - SharePoint Portal Server
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Media Center
Microsoft Associate Expert
Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"James Edelen [MVP]" <jj4@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uQR9hFKpDHA.2820@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> If you can get them in, it will work. Usually, though, there are problems
> getting files in which are over 75MB. Also SharePoint does not like
> embedded files. If the project files you have embed other file types,
> sharepoint's crawling engine does not like them, so you should break them
> into seperate files as well.
>
> SQL can support larger file sizes, but SharePoint tends to have timeouts
> which cause the large upload problem.
>
> --
> James Edelen
> Microsoft MVP - SharePoint Portal Server
> Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Media Center
> Microsoft Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> "David" <david.parenteau@compuware.com> wrote in message
> news:4740AB7B-79F4-4934-8BBD-AAAFCFE4A43F@microsoft.com...
> > Here, we see the opportunity to transfert our file server into a
> sharePoint server. We have more than 100 different projects and some
> projects have more than 100MB of files. The biggest has 1962 MB.
> >
> > We expect that each project could be represented as a site on the
portal.
> RAM is 1GB, CPU is Pentium 4 with 2.4GHz
> > We want to know if SharePoint Portal Server 2003 used with a SQL Server
> Enterprise would be hard enough to host all these files.
> >
> > Does someone could give me an opinion based on experience or a link were
I
> could get infos on scalability and performance?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
>
>