I have 2 servers - 1 WFE and 1 APP - but what's the best configuration for Search in this scenario? 

currently it looks like this: 

Typical answer is to have the majority of it on the 'Batch' tier with only the Query Processing and Index Partitions on the WFE. This is to ensure that the low latency stuff is available to serve requests and the less urgent things can make full use of the APP server to crawl content etc.

Hi Alex 

Ok - How do I modify the current to that? 

This should be a good starting point: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2013/04/09/configuring-sharepoint-2013-search-topology.aspx

Thanks...!

I'll then just make a .ps1 file with the lines and that's it ? 

More or less, you will have to run the PowerShell commands in that ps1 file but it's a fairly straight forward process once you know what to do.

yea...that's just it...now got this in searchsetup.ps1 

$hostApp1 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "SERVERNAMEAPP"  

$hostWF1 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "SERVERNAMEWFE"

Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $hostApp1

Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $hostWF1

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $hostApp1 
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $hostWF1 


$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
$newTopology = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa


#SERVERNAMEAPP
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology

-SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1

New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology

-SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1


New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology

-SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1


New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology

-SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1


New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology

-SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1 -IndexPartition 0

#SERVERNAMEWFE

New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology

-SearchServiceInstance $hostWF1

#Activate the Topology

Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $newTopology

# Verify the Topology 

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa

 

but it doesn't work.... 

• Edited by JmATK Tuesday, November 26, 2013 9:58 AM

What doesn't work about it?

It stops and prompts for e.g. SearchServerInstance...tried to type in $hostWF1 without any luck...

You need to remove carriage returns...

Your command

New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology

-SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1

should read

New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent -SearchTopology $newTopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostApp1