What is Best Practice for the implemetation of MPS 2007.

[Vickey]

Hello Gurus,
I have a question rather then I am looking an expert views on my question.

In my company we have 8 different department and we are going to implement
the MPS 2007 for each department. Everything is fine; I need your views,

Is it good idea create a spate web application for every department’s PWA
instance? Because when I create a separate Web Application for each PWA
instance then I need 8 different URL from the network guys that’s a big
problem. But I need your suggestion which one is good all departments under 1
web application or create separate web application for each department?

Another thing is it good idea if I create separate SSP for each department’s
instance?
I say thanks in advance.
Thanks
Vickey

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Vickey:

To answer your question correctly would require a careful study and
understanding of your business requirements, something that can't happen in
a newsgroup. So, there is no right or wrong answer here, only the answer
that works best for your company and its unique requirements. With that
said, generally speaking, you can organize your implementation into separate
instances when there is no significant resource sharing. In other words, you
wouldn't want to the network group in your IT department in a separate
instance from your Dev group, as many projects require resources from each
group. However, it wouldn't likely be a problem if Finance and Human
Resources had their own instances as they would rarely share resources with
one another. This is merely a rule of thumb, not a directive!

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[Vickey]

Thanks Gary for your quick response.

The thing is that what our planning we are creating the separate PWA
instance for every deaprtent because their is no resource shareing or. But i
am just looking the expert view / Best pratices that if we create all the PWA
instance under 1 web application or we have to create a seprate
webapllication for all instances.

thanks
Vickey

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Vickey:

As for separation of web application spaces, I'd say that's a matter of your
server hardware and implementatin preference. Keeping each in its own
application space prevents one instance from bringing them all down, but its
certainly not necessary. Project Server is very much a Monday/Friday
application in most organizations, and is more tollerant of downtime than
mission critical systems like financial systems or communications systems.
Ask your server folks how they prefer to provision things.

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[Vickey]

Thanks Gary,

I think now you understand what i am trying to ask.
The hardware / space their is no problem for us, Because we are using the
excellent configuration. Yea the problem what i am thinking, if one PWA
instance go down then all the remaining Instance in that web application
affected or not?

I agree its totally monday/friday job, But i have to maintain up for 24/7
and i have also one constraint my user are not smart enough.

I have excellent configuration, no issue for space, i need to avoid
downtime. then what your views about.
which one is best?
1) one web application and all instance in it
2) each web application for every instance(PWA)

thanks
Vickey

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Vickey:

On a multi-instance system, there are still plenty of single points of
failure that are much more likely to give your problems than the web
applications. High availability solutions require multiple WFE servers and
failover at the SQL server. So, if you've got lots of RAM and processer
power, it couldn't hurt!

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[Vickey]

thanks.
sorry i forget my configuration, we are implement a Farm(Including 2 WFE, 2
APP Server, 2 BACKEnd SQL Server) with latest technology processor and Ram.
Another farm which is identical to the production envirnoment but we use it
as Stagging.

I think may be now you write something.

thanks
waqas

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

That's a mighty big farm for Project Server!

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