Capacity Planning for SharePoint: System Center Capacity Planner 2010 (Formally discontinued by Microsoft)

Overview

System Center Capacity Planner 2007 provides you with the tools and guidance to simplify deployment planning for Microsoft server products and to use "what-if" analyses to predict the impact of change. Capacity Planner 2007 is available for anyone to download and no longer requires a TechNet subscription.

Capacity Planner 2007 helps you plan your deployment efficiently and predict the impact of change in the following ways:

• Helps ensure the success of supported Microsoft server products, such as Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and System Center Operations Manager 2007. Plan the correct amount of infrastructure needed for a new application to meet service-level goals.

• Infrastructure planning and optimization. Plan ahead for IT purchases to optimize cost.

• Proactive performance planning. Help an organization meet their service-level goals consistently—now and in the future.

• Performance analysis and predictive reporting. Report performance trends and bottlenecks, automatically, to manage current and future performance issues.

System Center Capacity Planner 2007 is designed to help you create a system architecture model for deploying a Microsoft server application, such as Exchange Server 2007. Capacity planning models for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and System Center Operations Manager 2007 are available as separate downloads. A typical system architecture model consists of:

• Topology. Site locations, types of networks, network components, and network characteristics (bandwidth, latency).

• Hardware. Server distribution and characteristics, server and network mapping.

• Software. Server role and service mapping, file and storage device mapping

• Usage profiles. Site usage and client usage.

After you create a model, you can run a simulation that provides a summary and details about the performance of the application and its supporting components.

 

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