SharePoint 2010 Platform Boundaries
Well the other day I came across this fantastic site pertaining to SP2010 Enterprise Content Management http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh126808 (Do check it out if you are in to SP2010 ECM implementation. It is a 5-days complete course with video, quizzes and Labs) Here I came to know about really useful information regarding the SP 2010 figures on Platform boundaries. The figure below, which is quite handy for the SP developers, tells the entire story. Every SP Farms consists of services, One config database Several web applications. Every web app can at most comprise of 500K site collections 300 Content databases. Every Site Collection consists of 250K sites 50K Content databases Every Site can consists of 5K lists Every List can at most consist of 30M items Now this gives us some hints about how to plan SP 2010 implementations.