Installing Search Services on a separate tier in WSS 3.0

Has anybody been able to setup the Search Service on a separate
server? All of the documentation suggests this is possible but Search
Services on other servers already present in the farm are not
appearing. The server I'm trying to use also has SQL Server on it -
would that be a problem?

chris
Thu Mar 08 08:16:23 CST 2007

On Mar 7, 3:17 pm, "DDJ" <dejun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anybody been able to setup the Search Service on a separate
> server? All of the documentation suggests this is possible but Search
> Services on other servers already present in the farm are not
> appearing. The server I'm trying to use also has SQL Server on it -
> would that be a problem?

Hi there -

Are you using MOSS? It is possible to split out the index server in
your farm but your farm can only have one index server. If your index
server is also serving queries, setting up an alternate query server
won't work even though you won't get an error or anything.

If you're in a busy production environment and you have a lot of
content to index, I'd say running the indexer and SQL Server on the
same box would cause some latency issues as both require large amounts
of RAM and are disk intensive.

chris