SharePoint Dragons

A long time ago, we did a SharePoint 2001 project (yep, the first version) where we needed to support 40.000 people. Really hard to do since at that time SharePoint could not scale out and everything including the datatabase (the Exchange-based web storage system or WSS) had to be located on a single server. We used a 3rd party performance optimizer tool that really helped a lot.

We haven’t really kept track of such tools, but here’s one you can use for SharePoint 2010 today: Aptimizer ( http://www.riverbed.com/us/products/stingray/stingray_aptimizer.php ). It’s always nice to have a tool such as this as an option. Also check out http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7926.sharepoint-2010-tips-for-dealing-with-performance-issues-en-us.aspx it’s becoming a popular resource for checking tips about dealing performance issues. It’ll be updated if there’s any news on the 3rd party optimizer front.