Question

I have a task where I have to propose a farm layout for new project. There will be about 70000 users, and no more than 100 site collections. I estimated requests per second value on 4,66. There will also be search service, profile synchronization service (probably with mysites, but not for all users).

I think about middle-farm deployment scenario, with 3 tiers, with 2 NLB WFE servers, one application server keeping all service applications and database failover cluster.

I was thinking of 4 core @ 2.27 GHz, 8 GB ram for WFE's and application server and 2x4 core @ 2.27, 16GB ram for DB severs. Do you think it might have descent performance on such setup?

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Solution

Take a look at HP's Sizer tool for SP2013 or SP2016 for SharePoint. It has long been a staple in any farm sizing exercise (their SP2007 and SP2010 no longer seem to be available. Everything will be in terms of HP-branded hardware but you can easily convert to other brands.

They also have a bunch of whitepapers and guides here

70k users is a fairly big farm, I don't know about choosing the middle-farm scenario. My current client at 800 users has a larger setup than you describe (2 WFE, 2 App, 2 SQL, all with 32Gb RAM), but the farm will host their publication intranet, collaborative sites and a bunch of application sites (with Excel Services etc.)

It all depends on the actual load. 4.66 RPS serving cached Publishing Pages is different than serving real-time BI dashboards.

Edit: Found their exact config, edited above.

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