HP Whitepaper on SharePoint Server Performance
Looking for more information or data on server performance with Office SharePoint Server? You'll be pleased to know that HP has recently published a document showing server performance with their hardware to help you size your hardware appropriately. Jimi Ibbett of HP, the author of the document, did a great job of demonstrating the real performance characteristics so you can make well informed decisions.
From HP... "This document provides details on HP's performance recommendations, example configurations and details on the new features for Microsoft® Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007. Several example configurations are provided ranging for those appropriate for a small business to highly available configurations (high availability is deemed mandatory) and application optimized configurations (where high performance and continuity of business is a requirement). HP Solutions Alliances Engineering (SAE) Performance Labs has characterized a typical business scenario (as was used to test SharePoint Portal Server 2003) to provide performance results. Additionally, comparison is provided for customers migrating from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Office SharePoint Server 2007."
This paper among other detail are posted on http://www.hp.com/solutions/activeanswers/sharepoint. I recommend bookmarking this page for quick reference.
