sharepoint 2013 search topology and optimization
DESCRIPTION
In this presentation, I am explaining the details of all search components, how to properly configure the search topology, and the options to extend the search farm in a hybrid “cloud/on-premises” scenario. This presentation will explain what you need to consider to design your search, in order to handle your organization's needs. We will dive into scripting a high availability search topology, keeping it healthy and manage your day-to-day search operations. Learn about how to optimize your search for best performance and search relevancy, to support reliable search applications.TRANSCRIPT
Search Topology and OptimizationApril 12, 2013
Mike MaadaraniSharePoint Architect
Bio..
Mike MaadaraniApp Dev and Architecture for over 18 years (15 Years Microsoft, 3 Years with the “Other Guys”)Business focused on Enterprise Content Management, Publishing Sites, & SearchTechnology focused on SharePoint, SQL Server and SharePoint IntegrationArchitect, trainer, and presenterBlog: www.maadarani.com [email protected]; @mikemaadarani
Configuring SSA and PS
Topology Scenarios
Agenda
Closing and Q&A
Relevancy, Query Builder, &Optimization
SharePoint 2013 Search Overview
Architecture and Resource Utilization
Hybrid… Say What?
Search in 2010
Crawl Component
Query Component
SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application
Crawl Indexing Engine
Query Engine
Search Admin
Property Store (SQL)
Content
UserWFE
FAST Search for SharePoint 2010
FAST Content SSA
FAST Query SSA
FAST back-end components(managed separately)
Extensibility:• Sandbox• Entity
Extraction
Crawl Indexing Engine
Query Engine
Content Pipeline
Analysis Engine
Query Pipeline
Search AdminContent
UserWFE
… In SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 Search Service Application
Index Component
Query Engine
Content Pipeline
Content ProcessingComponent
CrawlComponent
Query ProcessingComponent
AnalyticsProcessingComponent
Query Pipeline
Search Admin
Admin Component
Entire index on local disk
Property Store (SQL)
Content
UserWFE
Analysis Engine
Crawl Indexing Engine
Link/query analysis & recommendations
Separate crawl and indexing
Extensibility:• Web
callout• Entity
Extraction
SharePoint 2013 Search Architecture
SearchAdmin
Content UserCrawlContentProcessing Index
QueryProcessing WFE
API
AnalyticsProcessing
Crawl
Search Admin
Link
Analytics Reporting
FAST Search Index
SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX
HTTPFile sharesSharePointUser profilesLotus Notes DocumentumExchange foldersCustom - BCS
Public API
Search topology components
Content Query
Why Search is so important?
I just uploaded a document.
Make it searchable, quick!
FAST
Why Search is so important?
EASY
Why Search is so important?
EASY
Why Search is so important?
Search Driven Applications
Why Search is so important?
Search Everything
I can find ALL of Rob Ford’s hidden videos!
noderunner.exe noderunner.exe noderunner.exe noderunner.exe
Where does Search live in the farm?
Windows servicesSharePoint Search Host Controller service
Runtime/lifecycle control of search components (except crawler) hostcontrollerservice.exe
SharePoint Server Search serviceCrawl Component mssearch.exe mssdmn.exe
ProcessesNoderunner.exe
Runtime environment for search components (except crawler)
msseearch.exemssdmn.exe
CrawlComponentnoderunner.exe
Search Runtime Environment
hostcontrollerservice.exe
Host Controller
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Admin entitiesSearch Service Instance: Provisioning of the search service on each boxSearch Service Application: SharePoint Configuration entity
Still there, but only Crawl Component
AdminComponent
Query ProcessingComponent
Content ProcessingComponent
IndexComponent
Analytics ProcessingComponent
Where do I host my components?
CPU loadDriving factors
QPS
Query transformations
Network loadDriving factors
Number of index partitions
Size of queries and results
Example:20 index partitions @ 20 qps => 200/100 Mbit/s in/outbound
Query processing component (QPC)
Item count
DPS QPS
Load impact (relative)
CPU NetworkDisk
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16002.sharepoint-2013-capacity-planning-sizing-and-high-availability-for-search-in-spc172.aspx
CPU loadDriving factors
QPS and item count
Guidelines per index component @ 2 GHz CPU1M items: 5 QPS per CPU core
5M items: 2 QPS per CPU core
10M items: 1 QPS per CPU core
Disk loadDriving factors
QPS and item count
New content invalidates caches
Disk size: 500GB @ 10M items per index component
Index component
Item count
DPS QPS
Load impact (relative)
CPU NetworkDisk
Crawl component
CPU loadDriving factors
Documents per second
Link discovery
Crawl management
Network loadDriving factors
Downloading items from content sources
Passing items on to CPC
Disk loadAll documents are temporarily stored in data folder
Item count
DPS QPS
Load impact (relative)
CPU NetworkDisk
Content processing component (CPC)
CPU loadDriving factors
Documents per second
Document size and complexity
Feature extraction
Estimate: 5-10 DPS per CPU core
Network loadDriving factors
Documents per second
Document size
Item count
DPS QPS
Load impact (relative)
CPU NetworkDisk
Analytics processing component (APC)
CPU loadDriving factors
Number of items
Site activity
Disk loadLocal disk used for temporary storage
Bulk load, primacy concern is load isolation
Network loadSame as for CPU load
PLUS: Network traffic increases when distributing APC across multiple machines
Item count
DPS QPS
Load impact (relative)
CPU NetworkDisk
Search administration component
Low CPU and network load
Load increase with more components in the search topology
Item count
DPS QPS
Load impact (relative)
CPU NetworkDisk
Create your SSA
$SSADB = "SharePoint_Demo_Search"
$SSAName = "Search Service Application SPS Boston"
$SVCAcct = "mcm\sp_search"
$SSI = get-spenterprisesearchserviceinstance -local
#1. Start the search services for SSI
Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $SSI
#2. Create the Application Pool
$AppPool = new-SPServiceApplicationPool -name $SSAName"-AppPool" -account $SVCAcct
#3. Create the search application and set it to a variable
$SearchApp = New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Name $SSAName -applicationpool $AppPool -databaseserver SQL2012 -databasename $SSADB
#4. Create search service application proxy
$SSAProxy = new-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplicationProxy -name $SSAName" Application Proxy" -Uri $SearchApp.Uri.AbsoluteURI
#5. Provision Search Admin Component
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchAdministrationComponent -searchapplication $SearchApp -searchserviceinstance $SSI
#6. Create the topology
$Topology = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $SearchApp
#7. Assign server(s) to the topology
$hostApp1 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "SPWFE"
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent -SearchTopology $Topology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent -SearchTopology $Topology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $Topology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $Topology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $Topology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent -SearchTopology $Topology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1 –IndexPartition 0
#8. Create the topology
$Topology | Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology
Small Search Topology
Fault tolerant small search topology
Host
VM
Index QPC
VM
Admin
Crawl
CPC
APC
Host
VM
Index QPC
VM
Admin
Crawl
CPC
APC
Other SharePoint applications
Web front end
Admin
Crawl
CPC
APC
Index
QPC
Small search farm (up to 10M items)
Resources @ 10M items8x CPU cores24 GB RAM800 GB disk
Sized independently
Separate disk
for index
Scaling from small to medium search topology
Adm
Crawl
Index Index IndexIndex QPCCPC CPC
APC
Adm
Crawl
Index Index Index IndexQPCCPC CPC
APC
Extend your SSA
#2. Extend the Search Topology:
$hostApp1 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "SPWFE"
$hostApp2 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "SPSearch"
Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $hostApp1
Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $hostApp2
#3. Keep running this command until the Status is Online:Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $hostApp1 Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $hostApp2
#4. Once the status is online, you can proceed with the following commands:$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication$active = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa –Active
$newTopology = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1 –IndexPartition 0
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp2
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp2
New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp2
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp2
New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp2
New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp2 –IndexPartition 1
#5. Activate the topology:
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $newTopology
Medium Search Topology
Hybrid Search
Why Hybrid Search?
Hybrid SharePoint environment
Pieces of content distributed across multiple environments
Complexity due to multiple locations
Many top level domains requiring knowledge of where to go to locate the most relevant content
No single Enterprise Search Center for finding content
Lost user productivity and added frustration while trying to locate relevant content
Benefits
Provide integrated search results allowing for a single place to find content
One Enterprise Search center to reduce User Interface complexity Query all of your SharePoint content at the same time Allow O365 and On-Premises solutions to coexist Provides a solution allowing customers to move to the cloud on their
own terms Reduce operation cost Take advantage of newer SharePoint feature updates in O365 Hybrid search solves many problems as data is moving from on-
premises to O365
One-way outbound topology
WFE
SharePoint Online
Local search
results only
Site collection
Office365 tenant SharePoint Server 2013 Farm
Hybrid search
results
Outbound
Inbound
SharePoint Online can NOT query SharePoint On-prem
Internet
Microsoft data center On-premises
SharePoint Server can query SharePoint Online
One-way inbound topology
WFE
SharePoint Online
Local search
results only
Site collection
Office365 tenant SharePoint Server 2013 Farm
Hybrid search
results
Outbound
Inbound
SharePoint Online can query SharePoint On-prem
Internet
Microsoft data center On-premises
SharePoint Server can NOT querySharePoint Online
Reverse Proxy
DMZ
One-way inbound topology
WFE
SharePoint Online
Local search
results only
Site collection
Office365 tenant SharePoint Server 2013 Farm
Hybrid search
results
Outbound
Inbound
SharePoint Online can query SharePoint On-prem
Internet
Microsoft data center On-premises
SharePoint Server can query SharePoint Online
Reverse Proxy
DMZ
Tweaking Your results
Challenges: Intent
Where is my talk Project Plan?
Are Documents held at the same place?
I wonder if there are references from
previous projects?Different people have different intentsQuery Rules help you handle intents
There is rarely a single right answer
Infrastructure Project
Authorities: SSA-level configuration
Sites that are important
Sites with low intrinsic relevance
Takes ~24hrs to propagate
Authorities: Connected
Authorities: Connected
1
0
1
1
2
4
3
2
∞
4
Setting an authority affects all sites connected through hyperlinks
Sites are weighted
by distance to the authority
Query Rules
Tune Search Results
Created at the SSA, Tenant, Site Collection or SiteSSA
Site Collection
Site
Query Rules
ConditionWhen Do I apply the rule?
ActionWhat to do when the rule is matched?
PublishingWhen should the rule be active?
Query Rules
Exact match, beginning or end Ad-hoc or term store dictionary Match a regex (advanced) Is this query more likely aimed at
the following source…? Do people mostly click on result of
the following type…?
Conditions Show a promoted result Show a block of results Replace the core results
with a different query
Actions
Query Builder
Dynamically Ranking Change
Part of the query
Results Ranking
Query Builder
Configuration in the Conceptual Relevance Flow
For all queries:
Authorities: Level 1: http://employment
Ranking model: {incorporate user ratings}
Query:HR Employmentquarterly report
Search Web Part
Query Processing Engine
Document Collection
Thesaurus: HR Human ResourcesBest bets: HR Employment /HR/employment
(WORDS HR, Human Resources) AND(WORDS employees, employed) AND (WORDS quarterly, quarterlies) AND(WORDS report, reports, reported)
Mixed Results for:• HR Employment best bet• HR Employment quarterly
report• HR Employment
ContentType=reports
Dynamic Reordering Rules: Quarterly Report {prefer docs from http://reports}
Query Rule: {Terms} Quarterly Report {Terms} ContentType=“reports”
Create a Query Rule – Hybrid
From Result Source drop-down list, select the specified result source
Under Query is performed on these sources, if you select “One of these sources”, make sure to select the result source you created
Hybrid Results
Results from SharePoint Online
Results from SharePoint Server
Session Objective and Takeaways
High Availability and Performance
Better Search Quality
Better management
Friendly results and tools
