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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 query component


The SharePoint 2010 query server accepts the query from an end user from the web front-end. It then reads the index file and servers the result back.

The index file is partitioned. As query servers are added, the partition is broken into multiple parts so that no single query server holds the entire index. The following screenshot is from the Managing Search Topology page:

It illustrates how the index partition and query server are tied to one another. The index partition is sent to the query server by the crawl component. As can be seen from the preceding screenshot, each partition must have an associated query server.

It enhances the performance of the topology. There is no longer one large index file that must be traversed every time a query is sent.

Getting ready

You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site. There must also be another server on which to host the query server.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open the Central...

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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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