SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

Planning a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) installation or a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) installation for a large enterprise can be a very complex undertaking. Determining the most cost-effective topology, hardware, and bandwidth requirements is not a trivial task and involves selecting from a variety of configuration options. In choosing the option that best fits your organization’s needs, you need to answer the following questions:

• What is the minimum hardware you need to deploy?
• Where and how should you deploy the hardware?
• How can you optimize your deployment to meet your organization’s requirements for availability and performance?
• How will growing capacity needs affect the topology?

The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool, now available as a Beta release on Microsoft Connect, helps you effectively answer these questions, and helps you balance your organization’s needs for capacity and performance with its need to keep costs under control. This new tool extends Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007 so that you can use Capacity Planner’s analysis and simulation features to plan your WSS or MOSS deployment. With this tool and the analysis it provides, you can now reduce your planning time from several days to a matter of hours.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb961988.aspx

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