Manage FAST Search Server farm topology (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)

 

Applies to: FAST Search Server 2010

This section describes how to change the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint farm topology.

In this section:

• Manage performance and availability

• Reconfigure the farm deployment

• Increase indexing capacity

• Increase query capacity

• Manage high availability of the content index

Manage performance and availability

The following table lists typical FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint performance and availability related tasks with the associated operational procedures:

Task	Required steps
Increase indexing capacity to make more content searchable	Increase indexing capacity
Increase query capacity to handle more queries per second or reduce query latency	Increase query capacity
Configure query matching high availability	Increase query capacity
Configure indexing high availability	Manage high availability of the content index

The following figure shows the main topology components for the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint farm.

FAST Search Server for SharePoint farm topology

The search cluster provides the topology for the indexing and query matching components. The following figure shows an example search cluster configuration with two index columns and three rows.

FAST search cluster topology

See Also

Concepts

Plan FAST Search Server farm topology
Recommendations: Redundancy and availability (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)
Performance and capacity planning (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)
Plan search service applications
Manage search topology