FS4SP and Configuration Error: An error occurred while installing Resource store

Topic: SharePoint 2010, FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP), Configuration Wizard, Resource store error

Subject:  Configuring FS4SP.

Problem: My FS4SP configuration wizard continually fails while configuring the resource store.  When I manually run the wizard in debug mode I can’t find the cause of the error.  My log throws errors like the following:

5/1/2011 2:57:01 PM Error InstallResourceStore - An error occurred while executing binary "F:\FASTSearch\bin\ResourceStoreInstaller.exe". Return code is not 0.

5/1/2011 2:57:01 PM Error Utility.WriteException - Exception -  : Exception - System.Management.Automation.RuntimeException: An error occurred while installing Resource store.

5/1/2011 2:57:01 PM Error Utility.WriteException - Exception Stack Trace -

5/1/2011 2:57:01 PM Error Utility.WriteException - Error Details -

5/1/2011 2:57:01 PM Error Utility.WriteException - Target Object -

5/1/2011 2:57:01 PM Error Utility.WriteException - Fully qualified error Id -

5/1/2011 2:57:01 PM Error Utility.WriteException - Exception -  : Exception - System.Management.Automation.RuntimeException: An error occurred while installing resource store.

5/1/2011 2:57:01 PM Error Utility.WriteException - Exception Stack Trace -

5/1/2011 2:57:01 PM Error Utility.WriteException - Error Details -

5/1/2011 2:57:01 PM Error Utility.WriteException - Target Object –

What is the problem?

Response: I have only run into this issue once and was not going to blog about it as I doubt many people run into it but last week I was in a meeting watching a presentation in which the last PowerPoint slide showed the recommendation of 16 – 24 cores for a FAST server.  The problem turns out that the FS4SP configuration wizard will not succeed on a server with more than 16 cores.  FS4SP will run on more than 16 cores you just can’t configure it on more than 16 cores.

Solution:

1.      Lower the number of cores on the server

2.      Run the Configuration Wizard

3.      Re-enable the cores.

Conclusion:

For VM’s it is pretty easy to reconfigure the VM to have fewer cores and re-implement once the configuration wizard has been run successfully.  For physical hardware you will need to reduce the cores through the BIOS and then re-enable.

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