Manage Remote BLOB Storage (SharePoint Server 2010)

Updated: 2009-11-12

[This article is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases.]

Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) is an add-on feature pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008. RBS is designed to move the storage of binary large objects (BLOBs) from database servers to commodity storage solutions. If the content databases in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 are 4 gigabytes (GB) or larger, consider using RBS as part of your data storage solution.

In This Section

Overview of Remote BLOB Storage (SharePoint Server 2010)

This article provides a conceptual overview of how RBS works with SQL Server 2008.
Install and configure Remote BLOB Storage (SharePoint Server 2010)

This article describes how to install and configure RBS for use with SharePoint Server 2010.
Set a content database to use Remote Blob Storage (RBS) (SharePoint Server 2010)

This article describes how to enable a content database in SharePoint Server 2010 to use RBS. You must already have RBS installed to perform these procedures.