Scale, Performance, and Capacity Planning
The TechNet content has recently been updated and has a more complete set of capacity planning documentation across the platform and workloads. If you've been out there... NOW is the time to revisit. Below I've tried to put the relevant articles in an easy to find, easy to consume way for navigating across the rich capacity planning data.
WSS 3.0
· Plan for availability (Windows SharePoint Services)
· About performance and capacity planning (Windows SharePoint Services)
· Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments (Office SharePoint Server)
MOSS 2007
· Plan for server farms (determining # of farms, org requirements and licensing)
· Plan for availability (Office SharePoint Server) (Don't miss the NEW Database Mirroring whitepaper.)
· Chapter overview: Plan for performance and capacity (Office SharePoint Server)
· About performance and capacity planning (Office SharePoint Server)
· Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Office SharePoint Server)
· Tools for performance and capacity planning (Office SharePoint Server) (Get the tool and samples: WSSDW.exe)
Note: If you're doing your own perf testing or using the tool, you may be interested in these perf counters.
Portal & Collab
· Estimate performance and capacity requirements for portal collaboration environments
· Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments (Office SharePoint Server) (repeat from WSS above)
Records Repositories and Large Document Management Repositories
· Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server)
· Plan enterprise content storage (Includes info on planning for large repositories including data in indexed columns and strategies for scale)
Search
· Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments
Excel Services
· Determine resource requirements to support Excel Services
Web Content Management (Disk Caching, Object Caching, Cross List Queries)
· Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Office SharePoint Server) (repeat from MOSS)
Design
· Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment
Note from TechNet: Only 64-bit servers were used in the performance and capacity test environments. Although Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 can be deployed on 32-bit servers, Microsoft recommends that you employ 64-bit servers in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 farm deployments. Note from Joel: Be sure you understand your indexing requirements before configuring your Index server or the server that will have the indexing service as 64 bit as Adobe (PDF) and Notes files types do not currently have 64 bit IFilters (subject to change current as of 3/8/06).
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