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Published inJan 2011
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Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Scaling out Search—adding a crawl database


The final component that can be scaled out with regards to search is crawler. In the topology search application page, it is broken into two items:

  • Crawl Database

  • Crawl Component

The Crawl Server comprises of the crawl component that is associated with a crawl database. Each crawl database has one or more crawl components (crawlers) to index its content. It is typically scaled out for redundancy purposes or to increase the speed of the crawl.

The crawler crawls the content sources and creates the index partition(s). Then it sends the created partition(s) to the query server(s). It does not hold the index partition. It writes details about the crawl into the crawl database. It is stateless in that it does not retain information itself.

Getting ready

You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open the Central Administration site and click Application Management.

  2. 2. The third section is Service...

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Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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