Deployment documentation

Notes from the Field

Google Search Appliance (GSA) Notes from the Field provide help for designing and deploying search solutions based on the GSA. The recommendations and information in GSA Notes from the Field were gathered through work with a variety of clients and environments.

Notes from the Field are intended for a broad range of users, from anyone who is performing administration of the Google Search Appliance to solution architects, technical architects, and application developers. Please take a moment to send us your feedback about Notes from the Field.

Notes from the Field include the following guides:

Getting Started Guide

The Getting Started Guide is a quick-start guide for getting the Google Search Appliance up and running.

Audience: First-time GSA administrators.
Benefits: Helps you to perform simple configuration of your search appliance to start serving results to your users.
Last updated: March, 2014
New! This guide is now available in German, French, and Spanish.

Deployment Architectures

Deployment Architectures describes some classic examples of deployment architectures and how the GSA can be deployed to handle the various and critical needs of a large, performance heavy, yet failure intol