Architecting SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure
Overview This document presents such deployment-related information as the different deployment stages and environments, plus a flowchart that illustrates the steps for installing and configuring SharePoint 2010 Products. Requirements Before we can deploy Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 or Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation 2010, we must meet the following requirements: Hardware requirement: 64-bit SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 are 64-bit applications and can only run on a 64-bit edition of the Windows Server® 2008 operating system. We must have hardware that supports the use of a 64-bit operating system and 64-bit SQL Server. Hardware requirements—Web servers, application servers, and single server installations The requirements in the following table apply both to installations on a single server with a built-in database and to servers running SharePoint Server 2010 in a multiple server farm installation. Compone...