The Microsoft Solution Accelerator Communications and Collaborations group is pleased to announce the availability of the SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool for download on TechNet.
Are you planning a SharePoint installation for a customer? Chances are, you have a lot of questions.
- What is the necessary hardware investment?
- What kind of topology is needed to meet organizational requirements for availability and performance?
- How will additional users from a recent merger affect deployment?
When planning a new SharePoint deployment, you will need a way to quickly characterize the general topology and minimum hardware requirements to support expected usage loads with adequate performance. You will need a way to explore plausible scenarios and get pointed in the right direction. The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool gives you a quick way to draft topology and equipment sizing for your particular scenario and usage profile.
This solution reduces "SharePoint sizing" estimation efforts from a matter of days to a matter of hours.
### Description of the Tool ###
Imagine a tool that you could use to input a few key facts about users, user needs, business requirements, and organizational resources in order to:
- Build a topology model based on this input
- Run simulations that show the impact of this topology
- Generate a summary report that will help you evaluate alternatives
The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool consists of System Center Capacity Planner 2007 (SCCP) models for:
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
The tool can be used for planning and feasibility studies of a deployment project to give you a rough estimate of hardware requirements. The tool can generate estimated performance metrics based on a simulation and provide useful Visio schematics of the proposed deployment to be included in documents and proposals.
You can obtain the SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool on Microsoft Download. For a short introduction to the tool and its usage, please go to this TechNet overview page: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=93030
Note: This Solution Accelerator needs SCCP 2007 to be installed first.
### Downloads ###
SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool on Microsoft Download Center:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=93029
System Center Capacity Planner:
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sccp/default.mspx
Regards
The Capacity Planning Tool Group
-Ivan